On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > On Apr 30, 2010, at 07:37 , Adam Maas wrote:
>> >> The Sigma's got HSM (proper ring-type USM, faster than SDM), the rest >> are MF, but oh so nicely damped focus throws. Frankly I think the DA* >> 55's a damned good lens, but it should be $6-700CDN, not $900CDN. > > > > I'm sorry, but a 55mm ƒ1.4 lens should not cost more than $300, period. And > I feel that's pushing it. The design is a gazillion years old. SDM can't > cost more than $10 to design into a production lens barrel, and flocking in > a lens hood goes back to the earliest days of still and motion picture > photography. Big woop. The design is brand new (It's not an update of the older 50/1.4 or 55/1.8) and it gets a high-end barrel (High build quality, weather sealed, SDM). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
