On Jun 23, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > >> I don't test, but I think my DA* 50-135mm and the FA 50mm f 1.4 might rank >> at the top, but I have to say, I'm happy with the quality of all my lenses. >> Cheers, Christine >> > > A lens that seems conspicuously absent from this discussion is the 55/1.4. > For that matter, I hardly ever see the lens mentioned at all. Does anyone > even own one? How does it compare with the P-FA 50/1.4? > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >
I have the 55/1.4 and quite enjoy that lens. In the film era I had an FA*85/1.4, the 55 reminds me of that lens. And that lens was very very nice in many respects. I regret selling it but I needed to finance purchase of my 77mm which had equivalent quality, similar FOV, and much is smaller and easier to travel with. If I had to give up the 55mm or 77mm today, I would probably keep the 77, again primarily based on size. But the 55/`1.4 makes a great companion to the 21mm for walking a city like Venice or Rome in the evening . . . I can't compare the 55 to the FA-50; I never liked the look or feel of FA lenses and was able to pretty much skip over that generation of lenses, substituting either M or A lenses or FA* lenses. And then we got to the digital bodies and DA and DA* lenses and I've had even less reason to acquire any FA glass. stan -- 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.
