Yes, the 85-210/3.5 was one of the original zooms by Pentax in K-mount. (It may have began life as a screw mount design??!) But Pentax didn't make many K series zooms (35-70 and 85-210). In the M series,there was the 40-80. In the A series there were more, but still a limited number. In Pentax's universe, they borrowed good designs from prior series. The F series didn't have a lot of good zooms to borrow designs from. The F 35-135 is a new design with the F series, and suspect for that reason. Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:43 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 28, 2010, at 9:55 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > >> Never had one, never held one, never used one. >> Always stayed clear of it because of a poor reputation. >> Pentax was late to create zooms, and quality suffered. >> (I think they refused to believe in zooms vs primes.) >> Regards, Bob S. > > Some of Pentax' early zooms, like the k-series SMC Pentax 85-210/3.5 were > very good -- among the best zooms of their time. > Paul >> >> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Anybody know anything about this lens? I checked out Pentaxforums and >>> Stan's page. Lots of specs and very few opinions. >>> >>> -- >>> Steve Desjardins >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
