Re: hooked on AF

2004-12-21 Thread David Zaninovic
Is F70-210/4-5.6 my best option ? If that only was constant f4. :) - Original Message - From: David Zaninovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:55 AM Subject: hooked on AF Ok, I am now hooked on autofocus with 16-45/4, what are my options for

Re: hooked on AF

2004-12-21 Thread pnstenquist
I've been relatively pleased with the performance of the FA 80-320/4-5.6. It's an inexpensive consumer zoom, but the results are quite acceptable to my eye. Paul Is F70-210/4-5.6 my best option ? If that only was constant f4. :) - Original Message - From: David Zaninovic [EMAIL

Re: hooked on AF

2004-12-21 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, David Zaninovic wrote: Is F70-210/4-5.6 my best option ? If that only was constant f4. :) In the past year I went full circle from *SMC* F70-210 - Stigma 70-300 Macro S - Pentax FA80-320 - SMC A 70-21-/4 - SMC F70-210. In the process I returned two broken SMC-Fs (one from

Re: hooked on AF

2004-12-21 Thread Steve Jolly
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: You have a small problem, in that you have a 25mm gap around the useful 85mm FL (35mm equivalent) between that and the 16-45. I believe it's Joe who will chime in with vigour here :-))) Yeah... it'd be nice if Pentax released something like the Nikon 18-70mm DX. I had

RE: hooked on AF

2004-12-21 Thread J. C. O'Connell
perfectly acceptable ??? I think you just coined a brand new oxymoron. :) JCO -Original Message- From: Steve Jolly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: hooked on AF Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: You have a small

Re: hooked on AF

2004-12-21 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Steve Jolly wrote: Yeah... it'd be nice if Pentax released something like the Nikon 18-70mm DX. Theoretically* I would rather they did a 45-135 (67.5-202.5 equiv) or something, to match the 16-45's characteristics (around 3x zoom, constant f4, good quality) and complement

RE: hooked on AF

2004-12-21 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, J. C. O'Connell wrote: perfectly acceptable ??? I think you just coined a brand new oxymoron. Perfectly qualifies acceptable, not whatever acceptable qualifies. Cf maybe right. Kostas

RE: hooked on AF

2004-12-21 Thread J. C. O'Connell
] Subject: RE: hooked on AF On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, J. C. O'Connell wrote: perfectly acceptable ??? I think you just coined a brand new oxymoron. Perfectly qualifies acceptable, not whatever acceptable qualifies. Cf maybe right. Kostas