Mike,
Nice piece of work :)
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From: "Mike Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: K mount 35mm Lens
>
> > You should just cough up the money for the FA35/2.
> >
> > Doug
> > enabler-in-training
> >
> >
> > At 11:04 PM -05007/22/01, Todd Stanley wrote, or at least typed:
> >> It's a hard lens to find, I haven't seen any for sale for a while. So
that
> >> brings us back to the original question: With the F2.0 Pentaxes
cositng
> >> too much, and the F2.8 Pentaxes stink, and the sole F3.5 is rare, are
there
> >> any good, inexpensive, 3rd party 35mm lenses out there? (or should I
just
> >> cough up the money for a FA 35mm F2?)
>
>
> Good, Doug, good.
>
> Todd, think of it this way. An investment in a fine lens is an investment
in
> EVERY SINGLE PICTURE you take with that lens. It preserves and protects
the
> investment you make in buying and processing EVERY SINGLE ROLL OF FILM you
> shoot through that lens, and every minute and hour of your precious,
> irreplaceable life you spend photographing. By enhancing rather than than
> impeding your vision, it allows you to explore the focal length more
> thoroughly and to better explore your own capacity to photograph.
>
> A fine lens is an almost magical device, the foundation-stone of
> photography. WE say that the FA 35/2 is "expensive," but is it? At less
than
> $300 it costs less than many inferior lenses, and yet it is certainly the
> best 35mm Pentax has ever made, for all intents and purposes equal to the
> vastly more expensive Leica 35mm Summicron-M ASPH. Into this lens Pentax
has
> poured all of its expertise and experience in lensbuilding. It is small,
> light, fast, consistent, and sharp, sharp, sharp. It seems to me you have
> two choices. Spend a bit of money now, an expense which shall surely be
soon
> forgotten, and find yourself gratified and pleased every time you look
upon
> each fresh result; or pinch a few meaningless pennies and feel, each time
> you look at your work, the nagging anxiety that perhaps your lens might
have
> served you better.
>
> Besides, there are virtually NO decent third-party lenses in that focal
> length.
>
> The choice seems clear. GO FOR IT, Todd! You deserve that lens.
Substitutes
> are merely substitutes. I doubt you could be disappointed, and I have
every
> confidence that time and your results will vindicate and justify the
correct
> decision.
>
> Best,
>
> Mike, LPES*
>
>
> *Lens Purchase Enabler Supreme
>
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