On 9/9/2010 11:43 AM, Miserere wrote:
On 9 September 2010 09:14, Adam Maas<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm profoundly ambivalent on the new 35. The competition has amanged
to produce equivalents which are both faster (f1.8) and cheaper ($200
MSRP) and while the new 35 is smaller than the Nikon or Sony versions,
it's not significantly so. I was expecting a much smaller lens when I
heard the f2.4 spec.
Time for me to start hunting an FA35 I think.
-Adam
I am not ambivalent, I'm insulted. And the marketing blurb says "fast
f/2.4 aperture". That's like a car dealer trying to sell you "a fast
20mph sportscar". Do they think we're idiots?
My thoughts here:
http://enticingthelight.com/2010/09/09/pentax-finally-announce-new-equipment/
--M.
The f2.4 aperture isn't so strange, if you go back to the earlier days
of Pentax lenses. There was, an Auto Takumar 35mm f2.4, at one point.
I wonder if they've just dusted off the old optical formula and put it
in a plastic body... Naa, they wouldn't it would have to be a new design.
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bankruptcy."
-Woody Allen
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