On Sep 24, 2010, at 3:52 AM, John Coyle wrote: > . . . . if you are still thinking of a medium range zoom either > of the Pentax 28-105 mm zooms(PZ or FA, but not Takumar) will do an > excellent job. I had the PZ version, it got damaged beyond repair in a fall > and the insurance paid for the newer FA, which I find very good on both film > and digital. You can manually focus either, but I tend to the view that > having the ability to autofocus if you wish to can't be bad, and there are > definitely some circumstances where it will be a plus.
I can see that -- in the future. Wanna learn how to do photography first. Then I might know when it would be "a plus." > If, on the other hand, you are heading more to a prime lens, why not stay > with your SMC-A 28? That's where I'm headed. That or the 50mm f1.7 a I hope is still on sale at KEH. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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.
