John, these huge lenses (A* 300/2.8 and FA* 250-600/5.6) weight and cot more than I can dare to carry with me. I have heard that rumors that F 1:1.7 is better than FA 1:1.4, but who knows...
And one more thing: I will be out of town till week-end. --Sasha On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:10 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:44:17PM -0800, Sasha Sobol wrote: >> Hi. >> Here is the list of lenses I have and do not use much (used may be >> once last year): >> smc pentax-fa 1:1.4 50mm > > Might be interesting to try that. My only AF 50mm is the F 1:1.7, > although I do have the A 1:1.4. I used to have the M version as > well, but it got mislaid > >> tele-lentar 1:8 f=600mm (manual, huge) > > That's not huge (see later). > >> What I am interested in: >> long (300mm + lenses), good teleconverter > > Those I have. I've got an A* 300/2.8, the 1.4L and 2.0L TCs, > a couple of Sigma TCs (1.4x & 2x), and my piece of huge glass - > the FA* 250-600/5.6 > >> may be wide zooms; may something I simply do not know about > > I've also got a Vivitar 21-35mm zoom which is pretty good, but > which gets absolutely no use now I have the 16-50/2.8 > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.