I've owned the A and M(1st version) 28/2.8's and now use a Tamron 28/2.5 Adaptall-2. The A was decent, the M poor, the Tamron is superior to either.
-Adam On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: >> How do the M and A 28's compare? Â Is there a really good one or (more >> to the point) one to avoid? > > The A28/2.8 was one of my first Pentax lenses. It was a little soft > wide-open, very sharp by f/4-5.6, and had beautiful bokeh throughout. > > Never had the M version. Couldn't find *any* of the f/2 28mm lenses of > any series ... I kept looking for practically the whole time I was > using Pentax equipment. A friend had the K series 28mm f/3.5 ... it > definitely out-performed the A wide open, was otherwise similar. > -- > Godfrey > Â 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. > -- 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.
