if the FA is improved over the F, but the F is bringing in more money, their must some strong collector demand combined with a lack of supply of the F version because like I said, the F version is worth more than the FA version on ebay. What about build quality? Same?
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 1:36 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Whats the difference(s) between the 50mm/1.4 F series and FA series lenses? On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Miserere <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/9/10 J.C. O'Connell <[email protected]>: >> Ive noticed lately that the used F50/1.4 lenses are pulling in high >> money lately on ebay, even more than the FA version brand new in some >> cases. Anybody know what all the differences are between these two >> lenses are optically, mechanically, funcitonally, etc? Maybe its just >> a collector thingy or maybe the F version is better in some way?? I >> have never owned either one of them. > > Doesn't anybody know? I'm curious now :-) It's not that, it's simply that we all have JCO filtered out. The difference between the F50/1.4 and the FA50/1.4 are some minor points of styling, an improved, rubberized focusing ring, and the FA50 embedded chip has the MTF curve information in it, the F50/1.4 does not. Optically and mechanically they are otherwise identical. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
