On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > Have you looked at the old FA28-105/4-5.6, > the old power zoom one introduced with the PZ-1?
I have one and used it quite a bit for a while. its a good lens. It seemed to work on the istD better than this k10D as far as CA. Smaller sensor ???? Dave > It's as good as the FA28-80/3.5-4.7 power zoom is bad. > (I almost gave up shooting with the PZ-1 when I had that lens.) > Regards, Bob S. > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 1/13/2011 11:30 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >>> >>> It seems like all I have to do is express a desire for something and >>> there's automatically a big scrum piling on to tell me how wrong I am to >>> have that desire. It's not mandatory, so it's prohibited, and I'm not >>> even allowed to want it? >> >> I apologize. I did not mean to attack your dreams. >> >>> It's like "I don't want one, so you can't have one!" >> >> No, most certainly it's not. It's like "I used to want one, paid money for >> one and now I can see I can do without one. So may be you can learn from my >> mistakes and benefit from that." >> >>> Why not instead, "Oh yeah? Well, what I'd really like is to have ..." >> >> I know what I'd like to have, but I also know that I am not going to be >> getting it any time soon. >> >>> It's my *dream*. It doesn't have to make sense to you or to anyone else. >> >> If you say something to someone, it has to make sense to them, otherwise it >> won't be a dialog. >> >>> What is *important* depends on who's defining important. What is >>> important to you may not be important to me ... and vice versa. >> >> Sure. >> >>> I'll point out again, I don't expect to ever see the lens actually >>> produced by Pentax - although I think they'd probably sell a boat load >>> if they did. That doesn't keep me from thinking how useful it could be >>> for me if I had one. Nor should it. Nor should anyone tell me I'm wrong >>> for thinking that. >> >> Yes. >> >>> And I understand Pentax is never going to offer a "full frame" 24x36 >>> DSLR. I know. Ain't never gonna happen ... >> >> This is most unfortunate. I share the sentiment with you, even you think I >> don't. >> >>> Unless, of course, they decide there's demand enough that it IS in their >>> interest to offer one. And I expect the nay-sayers to be the first to >>> pontificate on how inevitable it was that Pentax should do so and how >>> marvelous an offering it actually is. >> >> The demand generated by the market depends on specific social slice targeted >> by the company. It seems Pentax is not including you or me in that social >> slice. >> >>> I don't know. Just seems like some people can't be happy unless they're >>> preventing anyone else from being happy; like there's not enough >>> happiness in the world to allow anyone but them to have any. >> >> Like I said in the beginning - I apologize as I did not intend to attack you >> in any way. >> >> Friends? >> >> Boris >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
