Hi Shel, Many thanks for your insight. It will be used by my SO on a nice little black MX loaded with Ilford Delta 400, and in street/reportage situations, as that's the only stuff she does - and she does it very well - better than me! Mind you, at 6'5" it's tricky for me to blend into the background. People notice me, so unless I'm beaming down a long bottle, I'm hopeless at street. I know she'd moan at the size of the f/2 (hmm, unfortunate choice of wording there...) and so I thought the 2.8 would give her an extra stop over the 3.5, with little difference in weight.
I'll boot her out into the street and get her to burn some film with it as soon as it comes. I'm working on a total revamp of my website this summer, with proper galleries at al, so will see what we can do about getting some of her work up there. All the best, Cotty >I've several Pentax 35mm lenses: S-M-C 2.0; S-M-C 3.5; K 3.5; K 2.0; and >the M 2.8 > >The M 2.8 is my least favorite, with the 3.5 versions being the >favorites. Compared to the S-M-C and the K lenses, the M 2.8 seems a >little "soft" - and that's the only way I can describe it. I find that >fine detail is rendered better with the K 3.5 than with the M 2.8, even >stopped down. The K 2.0 is a jewel as well, especially if you want the >speed, but it's a little big for my taste, being the size of some short >tele lenses. However, if you want the speed in that focal length, it's >a good choice. Stopped down a bit it appears to be a fine performer, >although the 3.5 seem somewhat better wrt fine detail and contrast. > >But, if you're not making large, wet darkroom prints, and are sticking >primarily to digital printing, or are keeping the size of your wet >prints to 5x7 or below, the M 2.8 should be acceptable. IMO, it's hard >to beat the K35/3.5 when it comes to manual focus 35mm lenses. _______________________________________________________ Personal email traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MacAds traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the UK Macintosh ads http://www.macads.co.uk - 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 .
