Back in the film days I shot with a Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 lens. I forget all the rest of the designations on the end of the name. It was fairly light and very good optically. The build quality wasn't overly robust, but was pretty good.
-- Bruce Sent from my iPad On Sep 8, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been shooting a bit of film latelyand have been using the FA 28-105 > f4-5.6 zoom as my everyday lens. This past week I was really chaffing under > this lens - it was just too slow, the rotating front element was at times a > PITA, it is heavy (thanks to the power zoom motor etc), and looking at the > image results, it is rather soft around the edges when shot wide open (which > I do more often that I'd like because it is so slow!) Granted, I was shooting > IR film and using a #29 deep red filter most of the time (-3 stops) but this > made me wonder about alternatives.... > > Looking at Pentax Forums lens ratings, I was surprised to see that the two > zooms I have (the 28-105 and the FA 28-70 f4 AL) are near the top of the pack > for the "consumer" zooms and altually very close to the the FA* 28-70 f2.8... > I would rate the lenses I have as very good in terms of optical quality, but > falling short of really first rate quality. > > Can anyone suggest any top-quality 3rd party lenses in the 28 - 100 range > that I should take a look at? I am hoping for somehitng that is faster than > what I have (either f4 constant or f.35-f4.5), 24/28 mm - 90/100 mm, > non-rotating front element of very good optical quality (on par with the > lenses I have.) > > I won't go on from there ... > > Any suggestions? > > Mark > > -- > 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.
