On 11/2/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: >They did, however, manage to squeeze a new lens onto the market very >recently, a 70-210 f/4 continuous aperture zoom.
I was in the market a few months ago for a constant aperture f/2.8 zoom in that range. The only stipulation was that it needed to have a manual iris ring on the lens and be a 'two-touch' zoom. It could have been Pentax, or anything in fact. I needed it for my video kit to use with a Canon C300 camera (EF mount). Ideally I was after a Tokina ATX 80-200/2.8 in any mount. In fact I eventually nabbed a Nikkor 80-200/2.8 and quickly sent it off to The Lens Doctor, a wild and canny Scot who used to be a roadie years ago for Black Sabbath or something. Anyway, he specialises in converting lenses by swapping the mounts to EF, de-clicking the aperture control and then using some Highlands magic to dampen it's movement, and generally clean it up. One of the lens groups had the startings of fungus so he cleaned it and applied TLC. Here it is on the C300: <http://www.seeingeye.tv/pages/spare.html> I briefly tried to find a suitable Pentax lens but didn't get very far. This is the lens type I got (if you can excuse Ken Rockwell one more time...) <https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/80200.htm> And it really is a solid T-Rex pellet of a lens. Weighs a great deal and needs the lens support as it damn near tries to tear the front off the poor C300. So my lenses with this kit are now: Nikkor 17-35/2.8, Nikkor 80-200/2.8, EF24-105/4 L IS, and believe it or not a Tokina 90mm 2.5 Macro in K mount with an EF adapter! I would use the A*85/1.4 but to be honest the Nikkor does okay with wide open dreamy bokeh, and my A* is used for stills with my Oly Pen F kit. Sorry to butt in. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit || (O) | <www.seeingeye.tv> ---------- _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
