On Jul 18, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > P. J. Alling wrote: > >> It's a DA limited, at 21mm its more like a 28mm on 35mm film. Not >> that >> great for panoramas. Still it looks like nice wide angle lens, >> too bad >> it doesn't have an aperture ring. > > The lack of an aperture ring doesn't bother me as much as the lack of > speed. f/3.2 is just too slow for me to get very excited about. > Certainly not excited enough to pay "Limited" prices.
The FA20 is $500 too (B&H prices). Speed isn't everything, it is only ~0.3EV slower than the FA20/2.8, but I agree that $480 (B&H current price) sounds a bit high for an f/3.2 lens. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
