Since none of you slobs bought it at my asking price of $90, I decided I'd just keep it in my car. I used it today in Baltimore during a walk with my son, who's visiting from Israel.
Geez, it took me forever to focus that f/4 lens on my Super Program. The two-touch operation slowed me down; and the f/4 kept the point of focus from snapping in and out with authority. All my shots were verticals, and the Super Program's horizontally split rangefinder patch was useless for vertical shots. The Ricoh bodies, with their 45-degree split, are much quicker for verticals, I find. Anyway, I gave my son the Super Program, the Rikenon zoom, and, for good measure, my Rikenon P 50/2, to take back to Israel to give his older sister, who had expressed interest in the Super Program a couple years ago. I still have a Super Program, two other bodies, and nine primes. Heck, I may throw in my Zenitar fisheye for good measure. Sometimes it's more gratifying to give away "cheap, but good" lenses than to sell them for beans. Too bad I sold off so many choice "seconds" two furloughs ago. I sure hope my "new" Pentax SMC 55/1.8K proves a worthy successor to the Rikenon P 50/2 at f/2.8 and f/4. If it doesn't, well, there are about a half-dozen Rikenon P 50/2s on EBay for $30 every day. By the way, after a five-week furlough, I start a new job Monday, July 1. Paul Franklin Stregevsky -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . - 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 .
