FA100-300mm

2002-08-30 Thread wendy beard
Quick question - FA100-300mm There appear to be two versions. A power zoom version (f4.5-5.6) and a current silver version (f4.7-5.8) The comments on Stan's site all seem to pertain to the power zoom version, and imply that it's not worthy to carry the Pentax name. What about the new version

Re: FA100-300mm

2002-08-30 Thread Robert Soames Wetmore
Quick question - FA100-300mm There appear to be two versions. A power zoom version (f4.5-5.6) and a current silver version (f4.7-5.8) The comments on Stan's site all seem to pertain to the power zoom version, and imply that it's not worthy to carry the Pentax name. What about the new version

Re: FA100-300mm

2002-08-30 Thread RĂ¼diger Neumann
motor and is less expensive. For money the new FA100-300 4.7-5.8 looks good, but I think it has a plastic lens mount. regards RĂ¼diger Quick question - FA100-300mm There appear to be two versions. A power zoom version (f4.5-5.6) and a current silver version (f4.7-5.8) The comments on Stan's site all

Re: FA100-300mm

2002-08-30 Thread Fred
This is probably one of the best areas in which to consider third party lenses - and particularly the alternative of third-party used fixed focal length lenses (especially if you were looking to use the zoom lens at longer focal lengths where they are all mediocre at best). I am not sure if