While the supply of F50/1.4 may be less than FA50/1.4 I dont think there would be much of a premium for it if it was just ONLY different styling than the FA lens regardless of lower production if thats the case. Now if it's optically correctly built more consistantly AND rarer, now thats another story.
-- 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 Bob Sullivan Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 10:18 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Whats the difference(s) between the 50mm/1.4 F series and FA series lenses? I would add it's a matter of supply. The F series lenses had a short production life. The original autofocus SF1 or SFX were not popular. Pentax was a bit behind the marketplace here (slow AF & noisey). The next generation PZ-1 camera series saw the introduction of the FA series lenses and lasted a lot longer. So I expect the number of F50/1.4 lens produced is much lower than the FA50/1.4 production. I am lucky to have an F50/1.7. I would love to find an F50/1.4 but haven't seen one for sale in years. Regards, Bob S. On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
