I think a lot of us are in the same boat. It's the beauty of Pentax that the manual focus lenses still work with the autofocus. My solution and suggestion is to keep what you have in the way of lenses - they're ok but certainly not the best pentax has to offer. Maybe trade in the off-brand 28 mm unless you really like it and look around for a good used say 28-105 autofocus (the older FA version is the best especially for a PZ1. later you could add the 100-300 or 80-320. You could do it the other way around if you use longer focal lengths more than the shorter zooms. That way you have the best of both worlds. I hope you didn't trade in your ME Super. If you did keep your eye out for a manual focus body as a back up. The best thing about Pentax is the backward compatibility, use it to your advantage. There are a lot of Minolta and Canon people out there who would pray for our flexibility.... Vic from Canada In a message dated 7/15/01 5:12:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Subject: Help With Lenses > > Having upgraded recently from ME Super to a PZ-1 , I am coming to some > tough decisions for lenses. I'm not sure if I will lose quality by upgrading > from my older manual pentax lenses, to newer autofocus models. To be honest, > while having AF features would be nice, ultimately it is optical quality > which matters most to me, as I plan to use it in manual modes 90% of the > time. Am I better off to stay with what I have quality wise or not? > > I currently have : > 1. Off Market 28mm f 2.8 > 2. SMC Pentax-M 50mm f1.7 > 3. Takumar-A Zoom 28-80mm f3.5-4.5 (Macro) (The Zoom is a bit loose, but the > optics are fine) > 4. SMC Pentax-M Zoom 80-200mm f4.5 > > I am looking at various newer pentax alternatives including: > 28-80 f3.5/5.6 SMCP-FA (to replace 3. ) > 80-200 f4.7/5.6 SMCP-FA (to replace 4. ) > 50 f 1.7 SMCP-FA (to replace 2. ) > 80-320 f4.5/5.6 SMCP-FA (to replace 4. ) > Macro 100 f3.5 SMCP-FA (cause it would be nice to have, though dont know > that i can afford it right now) > 50 f2 SMCP-A (not autofocus, but at least gives me the A) (to replace 2. ) > >> - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
