FWIW, I have your choice of two Pentax-F 70-210mm currently advertised on Pentax Forums Marketplace. It is too good a lens to be without, so I'm keeping whichever one doesn't sell (Buyer's choice). http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/photographic-equipment-sale/105608-sale-pentax-f-70-210mm-f4-5-6-exc-worldwide.html
Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Richard D Bush <rbushidiog...@comcast.net> wrote: > Eric, > > I have a very large collection of old Takumar glass. I love to use most all > of it and I particularly enjoy focusing manually. A lot of my 'OLD GLASS' > collection has M42 thread mounts. This is again easy to use with the adapter > ring that fits within the K mount of my modern Pentax body, a K10D digital > camera. > > However, when I want to shoot flowers, I will often use my DA 50-200 and > take along a couple of achromatic close-up lenses. This turns my 50-200 kit > lens into a very easy to use macro lens. The fidelity with either the 5T > (62mm, 1.5 diopters), the 6T (3.0 diopter) Nikon, a Canon (58mm 2.0 diopter) > 500T or a 52mm filter sized Sigma Achromatic Macro lens (1.6 diopter) I own > make macro shooting a breeze. > > Of course the screw on Canon or Nikon achromatic close-up lenses can also > be screwed onto my Takumar f1.9 85mm, my f2.5 135mm or my f4 200mm Takumar > primes. I then take along a set of extension tubes to short focus the 200mm > prime and I have a great field kit that can get really close. I also like to > use an f4 100mm macro Takumar. The 1:2 close focusing can get even closer > when I use step-up filter rings to use the close-up lenses on the front of > the 42mm filter sized 100mm lens. > > My next lens will probably be a fast DFA macro, such as the latest 100mm > macro. > > Richard Bush > > > On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:16 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: > > And don't forget, the SMC PENTAX-A 70-210mm covers full > frame that may come in handy in the future if and > when Pentax gets around to releasing a professonal FF digital > SLR. > > -- > J.C. O'Connell (mailto:hifis...@gate.net) > Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ > http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Eric > Weir > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:50 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Lenses again, again > > > > On Jul 22, 2010, at 6:22 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > >> It they are the same price go with the 70-210. From my own >> experience, I have a number of 70=210 lenses, the SMC Pentax F >> f4.0~5.6 the vmc Vivitar Series 1, f2.8~4.0, (the third version of >> that lens with the A contracts), and the Vivitar Series 1 f3.5, (the >> second version, no A contracts), and the M 200 f4.0. The latter two >> lenses don't see much use. The inability to use open aperture >> metering makes them just two inconvenient, dispute their wonderful >> optics.. I did some testing of all of those lenses at 200mm and found >> the difference in quality to be too small for me to notice. By all >> accounts the A 70-210 is very good optically maybe better than the >> SMCP F 70-210 or either Vivitar. The only reason to go with the M 200 >> is if you want to pair down the weight you're carrying around. The A >> 70-210 is somewhat heavier.. > > Thanks, PJ. I hear a preference for prime lenses, but the ability to control > aperture from the camera body really appeals to me. The folks quoted about > the a 70-210 on Stan Halpin's site spoke very highly of it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > > > > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- Nothing is sure, except Death and Pentaxes. -- 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.
