If I get the time and remember, I will take my A70-210 out to Boca Inlet and get some seascapes with it and some similar primes and zooms for comparison. I aint be able to shoot the DA60-250 because theres no way Im buying that at $1350 now. From what I recall my Tamron SP 80-200/2.8 is at the top of the heap, followed closely by the Tokina AT-X 80-200 which I also have. Now that I think of it, there must have been a lot of good telezooms produced over the years if you count from 1970's to date. Even the original 85-210 SMCK F4.5 zoom is pretty damn good IQ, just slow, physically long and wont focus close at all.
FWIW, I think I have these zooms still: smcA 70-210/ F4.0 smck 85-210/ F4.5 smck 85-210/ F3.5 tamron sp 80-200/2.8 tokina at-x 80-200/ F2.8 tokina at-x 100-300/ F4 smcm 80-200/f4.5 plus another dozen or more primes in that range. All above are manual focus models however if you fall into the AF "gotta have" camp. JC O'Connell (mailto:hifis...@gate.net) "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom" - Thomas Jefferson -- 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.
