[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >well, the 50mm is a pentax 1.7 (I own 2 of them now ^_^) >and the zoom is a albinar 1.38 >I don't know whether it's crap or not...
Its optical qualities are probably no better than today's cheap consumer zooms (which means "not very good") but I'll bet its mechanical construction is. Stop it down to f8-11 and it'll probably be OK. I bought a Cosina 20mm f4.0 on eBay for $20.00 and found it to be surprisingly sharp once stopped down. Now I keep it in my "mini" kit with the MX, M28/3.5 and FA43/1.9 Ltd. -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com Photography and writing

