On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 03:55:38PM -0500, Tom C scripsit: > This won't help but I was surprised that the used normal FA 100/2.8 > Macros have a higher asking price than the brand new D-FA's on e-bay.
It's sharper. The DFA has better colour rendering, but the FA is sharper. It's also built like an aluminium brick. > FWIW, I find the lens perfectly acceptable on the digital bodies. I > think I paid $200 for it, from the used lens counter of a camera shop > in 1999. I paid 900 CAD for mine; last new one Henry's had in the fall of 2007. (Yes, this was before I had a camera to put it on. I was dithering between the K10 and expected-in-September K20D.) Don't regret it. -- Graydon -- 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.

