Not according to Boz's site. The F 35-135 shares it's optical formula
with the A 35-135
http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/lenses/zooms/_optics/35-135f3.5-4.5.jpg
Good thing it's multi-coated otherwise it'd have the flare resistance of
a 1970's Led Zeppelin groupie*.
*Before anybody Mark!'s that I stole if from the 2006 PDML quotation list.
On 12/28/2010 10:56 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
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.
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