On 27/01/07, John Whittingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the risk of upsetting a lot of people the manual focus Smegma 24/2.8 > Superwide II is the best bang for the buck, it's usuable wide open on the > *ist D, little vignetting on film SLR's until f/4, my A 24/2.8 could only > just match it by F/8 and then just.
Yes the Smegma is a good lens optically but I've seen the helicoid grind to a halt in two of these units and quite a few where the focus scale was well out of alignment. > The FA24/2, awesome from f/5.6 - F/11 Ah yes, but it's a big lens for a f5.6 and the corners still show pretty bad CA when used on DSLR bodies. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
