On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Not the last new one they had, they've still got 1 FA 100/2.8 Macro last I checked. Still want $900 too. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
