I don't recall any such promise <g> I did say I'd take them, use them, and if I liked them, you could kiss 'em good-bye!
Isn't the Sigma an AF lens? Is it fixed aperture? "Paul F. Stregevsky" wrote: > I have sent both lenses to Shel, who should receive them any day. He has > promised to give them a rigorous comparison and report his findings more > scientifically than I could. I trust he will compare them with whatever > Pentax wides he owns. I own no other rectilinear lens wider than 24mm. > Would anyone care to send Shel a Mir 20/3.5 in M42 to test with my 20s? > > FV wrote: > But which 20mm is really good for available light? > Perhaps the 20/2 Zuiko or the 20/1.4 prototype Pentax... > > Paul replies: The Sigma 20/1.8 has been getting raves. With an 82mm front > filter, it may excel at all apertures. > > FV wrote: > AFAIK, all 2.8/20 Flektogons were produced after multicoating > was adopted by CZJ/PENTACON. So all of them, except perhaps some > prototypes, are MC/MULTICOATED (and state it with proud letters > on the barrel, either white or red MC or MULTICOATED in > capitals). > > Paul replies: I may have inferred wrongly that early CZJ 20/2.8s were not > multicoated, based on the following posting on, I believe, a Contax user site: > > "In a message dated 11/2/98 4:59:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "The best-known screw mount > lenses (that is: M 42 x 1) came from the German Democratic Republic (GDR). > The brand names were Pentacon, Prakticar, Meyer, and - of course - Carl > Zeiss Jena. Especially CZJ built some outstanding lenses - just remember > the Tessar 2,8/50, the 1,8/80, and the Flektogon 2,8/20. I own the > Flektogon in its final multi coating version from 1979 and a Prakticar > 5,6/500 MC from 1988, both in mint condition." > > I have reviewed jpegs from five or six 20/2.8s in all three mounts, and > all, indeed, say MC. > > Paul Franklin Stregevsky > 13 Selby Court > Poolesville, Maryland 20837-2410 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > H (301) 349-5243 > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
