On Oct 10, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > In general, personally I would recommend against manual focus lenses, > especially telephoto ones. My eyesight makes it difficult to focus precisely > even with the help of Katz Eye (split prism, etc) focusing screen. Given that > 70-210 (if it is A 70-210/4.0 we're talking about) has almost the same speed > as M 135/3.5, I see no reason to bother. Also A 70-210/4.0 has KA mount so > that you don't have to revert to green button stop down metering, which is a > good thing, because this kind of metering is not always reliable. M 135/3.5 > is smaller/lighter than the zoom lens and it will be ultimately your call to > make. I used to have F 70-210/4-5.6 which has somewhat legendary reputation > among Pentax lenses, and it was excellent indeed, even wide open. However, > eventually I had noticed that I am not using it and thus it got sold. I don't > regret it so far, after at least 2 years of having FA 77 as my longest lens > in use. Naturally, your style may be different than mine.
Thanks again, Boris. Yes, the 70/210 is an A. It's up for grabs what I'll take at this point. I'll be taking two lenses, that much has changed since I asked for advice. For the rest I have some idea and some bases for choosing, which I did not have before. As for style, I guess that's why I've got all these questions: I don't have one yet. Best I can say is that in this as in all things I'm biased toward understanding how things work, keeping it as simple as possible, and relying on machines only insofar as it's consistent with that. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
