On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Darren Addy wrote: > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sep 4, 2012, at 1:41 PM, John Francis wrote: >>> Use my FA* 80-200/2.8 one week, and see if that makes any difference. >> >> There are two problems with that: >> >> 1) The FA* 80-200 probably weighs twice what the Tokina does. > > I just weighed my Tokina 828 and without the metal hood (with caps and > polarizer) it weighs 1469 grams. > The FA* 80-200 specs at 1510 grams. > > I think I just eliminated at least one problem for you.
My bathroom scale only has resolution of 100g or .2 lb. My Tokina weighs 2.4 pounds, or about 1100 grams. I borrowed the FA* for a while one day, and after a while walking around the beach with it, that sucker got heavy! That's not to say that I wouldn't love to have one, I'm a sucker for fast glass. However the two I found on ebay's completed listings went for slightly less then $1/gm. John's one hell of a nice guy, but I expect that I'd have a lot better luck asking him to borrow it if I desperately needed it for a particular shoot than asking him to discount to anything that I could even pretend to be able to afford. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
