I think I have only once used the limiter on the FA so I'm unlikely to miss the feature.
My 100 Macro is probably my most abused lens. 95% of pictures taken with it have the front element inches away from salt water (I tried the DFA 50 for a while but the working distance is just not enough and you only dip the end of a lens in sea water once), it gets hit with salt spray, rained on, put down on rocks and various other abuses and looks and works as good as the day I bought it about 7 years ago. Mmm, writing that maybe I should be shopping for a second FA rather than considering a DFA. The image quality sounds good, I'm going to have to consider the build quality and see if I can get a really good look at one to see how much rain and salt spray can get into the various gaps in the lens (I said I wanted a weather sealed version). Thanks for the comments so far everyone. Leon 2009/11/8 eckinator <eckina...@gmail.com>: > I have the DFA 100 and like it a lot; I don't find the build too weak > - mind you, macro lenses don't get banged around as much as DA* zooms > which are built to take some abuse and AF hunting on the K10D is an > issue only in low light so I am OK with not having a limiter plus I > can prefocus manually so the long travel of the helical focus doesn't > hurt me as much. And it doubles nicely as a portrait lens, too. IQ is > brilliant as far as I can tell and it tested as Pentax's best lens > according to Germany's fotomagazin (not sure if it is a "so far" or > "entire lineup" best though) -- 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.
