thanks Jostein, that's reassuring. i suppose there is a lot of individual copy variation...i am still exploring my options for a tele...
subash On Fri, 18 May 2018 21:22:44 +0200 Jostein <[email protected]> wrote: > Subash, > I owned the FA*400/5.6 for many years and enjoyed it a lot. It's > light and portable and handles well. There wasn't much colour > fringing as far as I recall. On digital I only ever used it with the > *ist-D and the K-10D because I sold it to finance the FA*600/4 in > 2008. > > Jostein > > > Den 18.05.2018 16:09, skrev Subash Jeyan: > > i recently used for 4 days the FA* 300/4.5 of a friend and liked it > > quite a bit. i've been looking at buying (may be, perhaps) the FA* > > 400 and would love to hear perspectives/opinions of those who have > > used it: the IQ, how it handles, etc... > > > > the only source for them is of course Ebay, mostly from > > Korean/Japanese sellers. i am a little wary of buying the DA* 300 > > because of the SDM problems... > > > > i can buy the DFA 150-450 but it is prohibitively expensive here. > > for the price, i can buy a nikon d7200 and the nikkor > > 200-500/5.6...., which is another option... > > > > thanks for your inputs. appreciate them. > > > > ~subash > > > -- 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.

