smc FA 35-80mm f3.5-5.6 for the sake of my LBA...

2010-05-04 Thread Roman Melihhov
I'd been buying several older FA lenses and Samsung's D-series lenses recently. Found good deal for FA 35-80mm f/3.5-5.6 tele-zoom. What can you say about it? I can't find many larger sample images to see what it's about in pictures... Your comments highly appreciated,

Re: smc FA 35-80mm f3.5-5.6 for the sake of my LBA...

2010-05-04 Thread Cory Waters
I had one for a while. Build quality was questionable. It felt pretty plastic, if you know what I mean. The images were OK for me though the lens didn't get good reviews from whatever pixel peepers used to be in the film days. The zoom range wasn't enough on either end and it's too slow.

Re: smc FA 35-80mm f3.5-5.6 for the sake of my LBA...

2010-05-04 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Cory Waters cbwat...@bellsouth.net wrote: the lens didn't get good reviews from whatever pixel peepers used to be in the film days. Grain Magnifiers? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: smc FA 35-80mm f3.5-5.6 for the sake of my LBA...

2010-05-04 Thread P. J. Alling
Had an almost new one, at the same time I had a F 35-70 3.5~4.5 and a FA 28-70 4.0. I still have the 35-70. (I'd like to find it a new home, I don't use it enough, but they're so inexpensive it's hardly worth it). I found a replacement 28-70 when the rear aspheric element separated. I got