there are some rare exceptions, but in general I have found that most legacy high quality pentax optics work great on digital as well as film.
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Home Page - www.jchriso.com Join the Audio CD PLAYER DISCUSSION list - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Dayton Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 2:37 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: HELP! Are old Tamron lenses incompatible with digital? >> >> I recently acquired the Tamron SP 180mm F2.5 >> adaptall2 lens and it's the best telephoto >> I have ever owned (on digital). Stunning >> fine details/detail contrast. >> >> Never owned the Tamron SP 300/2.8 (there were three >> versions of that one), but seems weird that >> it would be a poor performer in light of >> the 180mm being so outstanding. >> BW> My experience of the CZ lenses was that some of them performed well BW> on digital, but others didn't. For example, the 100/2.8 makro was BW> still good, but the 85/1.4 showed a lot of purple fringing to the BW> point that it was useless on digital. BW> Bob I found the same held true with the Pentax FA*24/2 lens. On film, this was one of my favorite lenses - great sharpness. But when I went digital, this ended up being a lens I sold quickly - just didn't perform so well. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
