On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > Below are several lenses at eBay and KEH that intrigue me and that I'd > appreciate any comment on. [My camera is a *ist DS. My current lenses -- 50MM > and 100MM macro -- are both M series.] > > A lenses > > • SMC Pentax A Series 28mm 2.8 [$170 and up on eBay.]
Quite a good little lens > • SMC Pentax A Series 24-50 F4 Zoom [$90 BGN and $115 EX at KEH.] I'm not familiar with this one. > • SMC Pentax A Series 35-80 F4-5.6 Zoom [$39 at KEH.] I'd avoid it, it's the non-AF version of one of Pentax's lesser kit zooms from the 90's. > • SMC Pentax A Series 70-210mm Tele Zoom [Several in $150-$200 range > on eBay.] The A 70-210 f4 is excellent, but the DA 50-200 f4-5.6 is better, has AF, is much smaller when fully retracted and is usually a fair bit cheaper. I'd only get the A 70-210 if I also wanted it for a film camera. > > > K lenses > > • SMC Pentax ( K ) 28mm F3.5 [One at $170 on eBay.] Excellent lens, I'd hesitate to pay $170 for it though, you can get the optically identical SMC Takumar version for under $100 and a screwmount adapter for $20 and get more functionality on your DS (The screwmount lenses work in aperture priority mode) > • SMC Pentax ( K ) 28MM F2.8 [Extremely low bidding with two days to > go on eBay.] No such lens exists, there is an M lens which may be mistaken for this though, but it's not as good as the A version or the f3.5 version. > > What's with the lack of interest in it? There are lots of A series zooms. How > do they compare to the fixed length A series. That very much depends on the zoom. Some are excellent, some are atrocious. > > The 28mm 2.8 A interests me because it would give me exposure control on the > camera body. The 28mm F3.5 K has been recommended, I believe by more than one > person, already. How does the 28mm F2.8 K compare? Why aren't people bidding > on it? > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir -Adam -- 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.
