I think it would be great if pentax did make a zoom of around the 18-35 range with a constant max aperture of 2.8. It would be useful for me not necesarily because i would shoot at 2.8, but for the ease of focusing manually, or atleast seeing where the critical point of focus is, trying manually focus an F4 or slower lens at 20mm or something is a nightmare, not that its great at 2.8, but it is useable.
I think this is the main lens that is missing from the Pentax lens lineup. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:42 AM Subject: Re: The lens that Pentax SHOULD have made... > Well it's a Canon so it's like a cheesy j lens by default, otherwise I > find it to be just a tad depressing. > > At 12:41 PM 2/27/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >I'm probably not alone in my disappointment that Pentax's new 18-35 zoom > >is a cheesy "J" lens with an aperture of 4.0-5.6, but it makes it even > >worse to see something like this: > > > >17-40mm zoom > >Constant f/4.0 aperture > >Canon mount :( > >http://www.dpreview.com/news/0302/03022709canonef1740.asp > > > >-- > >Mark Roberts > >Photography and writing > >www.robertstech.com > > Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. > Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx >
