----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 8:52 PM Subject: Re: 100mm 2.8 Macro vs. 100mm 2.8
> Little bit of a cheap shot here. I'm with Mishka. A Vivitar or Tokina is > going to give you just as good results as the Pentax. The feel might be > different but the end result is not. The vivitar Series One, Tokina ATX and > the Kiron 105mm macros were all excellent lenses in their day and they still > are today. Macro lenses are so good that most films don't do them justice. > Guys, I love Pentax lenses too but there are plenty of other lenses that are > just as good - some even better. Theses other lenses just don't hold their > value the way the big name camera lenses do so they are always a better deal, > unless you want to sell them. > Vic Hell Vic, take a few more cheap shots!! Thats OK. The end result is different. The bokeh of the A 100mm f/2.8 is friggin amazing. I had one of those Vivitar 90mm f/2.5 macro lenses that went 1:1 with no extenders. Reputed to be a fine lens. I thought it was, to. Problem was, it had sucky bokeh. So much for art!!. Add to that the feel of the Pentax lens and the A 100mm f/2.8 macro is unbeatable. BTW, Photodo has proven themselves time and again to have worse that useless lens tests. They fall into "the sky is pink, I read it on the internet" category. William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
