> because I figured we had run this topic into the ground several > times in the past.
But, that's never stopped us before, so why should it now? <g> Heck, twenty years from now, when probably most of the PDML members are using zooms all the time, and, to the rest, a 50mm lens is just a special-purpose portrait lens (assuming that APS-sized sensors remain the norm, although I hope not), there'll still be a few of us old codgers that'll be willing to beat the "Pentax's Best 50mm Lens" discussion into the ground once more... Fred