> 1. A very good lens is the Pentax A 70-210/4. This is a popular
> lens with many PDML-ers, and is sort of the standard against which
> the other manual focus 80-ish to 200-ish zooms are compared.
> 2. The Pentax M 80-200/4.5 is a good lens, too, although a bit
> slower than the above, and a bit narrower for zoom range (2.5 to 1
> versus 3 to 1).
Oops - I forgot - there's also an SMC ("K") version of this lens, as
well.
By the way, there are other non-SMC lenses by Pentax in this range,
too, and I should point out that I'm not recommending any of the
Pentax/Takumar/Cosmicar 70-200/4's (none of which I've tried,
admittedly), or the Takumar 80-200/4.5 (which I did try). There are
enough SMC Pentax lenses in this range that it shouldn't be
necessary to actually hunt out any of the non-SMC ones.
Fred
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