Hey John, you wanna sell the 80-200? :-) Sent from my iPhone
On 24/08/2011, at 2:39 AM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:51:27PM +1000, Tanya Love wrote: >> >> Hey guys, >> >> I know this has probably been discussed a gazillion times over, but in your >> opinions, what is the best Pentax mount 80-200mm/f2.8 (or equivalent)? >> Happy to go third party if it can be justified... >> >> Tan.x. > > I own both the FA* 80-200/f2.8 and the DA* 60-250/f4 > > Both are excellent lenses (the 80-200 was my go-to motorsports lens > in the film days, and works just as well on the DSLRs). > > I've only recently accquired the 60-250, but from my initial experiences > I suspect it means the 80-200 isn't going to see much use; I doubt if I'm > going to need full-frame coverage (especially for a telephoto lens), and > modern sensors are so much better that the loss of one stop is tolerable. > There's little enough depth of field at f/4 (for subject isolation), so > that isn't too much of a limitation either, and there's always the 50-135 > covering the low end of the range if I absolutely must have f/2.8 > > > -- > 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.
