If you remember, Godfrey, FAJ 18-35 used to be a kit lens for *istD when it first came out.
No, there is nothing confusing about it. It is just that the definition of what exactly is FA, FAJ, DA, D FA lens is a little blurred to me. Boris Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > I don't know what's confusing about it. The FA-J lenses were a small > set of modestly priced "junior" lenses in the FA series produced for > the Film cameras. > > The DA series are the latest lenses designed for the Digital cameras. > > Just because a lens is optimized for a digital sensor doesn't mean > that its image circle *has* to be too small to cover a larger format. > > G > > On Oct 1, 2007, at 9:37 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > >> Well, yes, I hear what Mark, Godfrey and you are saying. But consider >> the FAJ lenses. Although very short living (are they still produced?) >> and with just 3 lenses - they were still full frame (proper) lenses >> that >> did't have an aperture ring... >> >> Indeed, this is confusing. >> >> In fact, if anyone of us who has these DA lenses (40, 70) would >> care for >> a (as much as I dislike this term) full frame test, it would be most >> helpful. >> >> OTOH, it is known that DA 21 does *not* cover the full frame. >> >> Go figure... >> >> Boris > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
