Godfrey, I do enjoy our conversation about this lens. I've just clicked on some button (I am still quite a kludge in LR 1.0 that I downloaded for a trial) and the statistics of which lenses I used how many times showed.
So, for roughly 9,000 images I shot with *istD and K10D the distribution is as follows: 77 lim - 1079 43 lim - 607 31 lim - 579 Tamron 28-75/2.8 - 791 I am fascinated, 'cause I never thought of my shooting habits in these terms... Anyway, it appears that limited lenses get their limited use ;-). Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Here's a rather extreme demonstration of flare with the FA31: > > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/FA31-flare.jpg Extreme indeed. > A good lens hood would likely eliminate it for the DSLR, if you could > fit a good lens hood with that fixed hood. Grr. I totally agree. > For me, the 43 Limited is going to replace the 35/2 and 50/1.4 ... it > slots in between the 28 and 70 perfectly. The kit I've assembled now > is very complete, for my purposes: DA14, DA21, FA28, FA43, DA70 and > the DA50-200. All (except the 14) very compact and light, just the > right FoV coverage, very high image quality throughout. The graph of > FoV vs FL is pretty nice: > > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/FoVs-Pentax-DSLR.jpg This is what 43 limited did to me. I sold 35/2.8 and basically deprecated 50/1.7. It is there mostly because of sentimental value. After all, FA 50/1.7 was my first prime lens that taught me great many things about photography. > I still use the FA20-35 too ... it's such a good wide-normal zoom for > when I want to carry just one lens. For me it is Tamron 28-75/2.8. But I hear what you're saying ;-). Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
