I concur on th A 35-105/3.5 I just gave my excellent copy to my daughter who is shooting weddings and portraits with a K20D. She is raving about the lens and it has become her favorite overnight. A bit heavy, but excellent nonetheless.
-- Bruce Sent from my iPad On Sep 9, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > A35-105/3.5. I haven't taken it off my camera at all lately. Razor > sharp at even f3.5. Stop down and it gets so sharp it will cut you. I > like this lens so much I'm going to track down a minty copy soon. Mine > has some slop in the focusing, but I've been more than ok with > fighting the focus when I get the results back on my computer. You > lose AF and 28mm at the wide end, so this might not work all that well > for you. As much as I love wide angle, I'm finding the 35-100 range > quite useful indeed. 50mm equivalent is a bit for a walk around > though.....just a thought. > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Good old Pentax QC strikes again. Mine's been fine and has stayed reasonably >> tight. >> >> Rick >> >> http://photo.net/photos/RickW >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Boris Liberman <[email protected]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Cc: >> Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 9:21 AM >> Subject: Re: Normal Full Frame Zoom >> >> Rick, I've had few FA 24-90's including one that I bought and got it >> to travel to Germany and back here. All of them, no exception suffered >> from the same mechanical problem. The barrel would get loose so that >> when the focus approaches infinity it would move sideways (easily seen >> in viewfinder with split-screen) and ultimately miss the focus. >> >> In general I would steer away from both FA 24-90 and latest FA >> 28-105/3.2-4.5 only because of that mechanical flaw. If one is >> prepared to focus manually, these are both fine lenses. >> >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Mark, >>> >>> I shoot with the Pentax FA 24-90 quite a lot. It's considerably lighter >>> than the 28-105, seems reasonably well-made (mine is still tight and sharp >>> after ~15 years), and its contrast and flare resistance are excellent. >>> >>> Rick >>> >>> http://photo.net/photos/RickW >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Mark C <[email protected]> >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >>> Cc: >>> Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 10:33 PM >>> Subject: Normal Full Frame Zoom >>> >>> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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.
