I'm seriously considering the F 70-210 next as I keep seeing them on KEH for really cheap. I'm really loving this non-SMC Takumar 70-200 f4. In fact it rarely leaves the camera anymore even though its the wrong focal length 90% of the time. Its not even great @ 200mm, but serviceable stopped down to f8 or so. With all the praise the F 70-210 seems to get here, I figured I ought to get a good copy. The AF would certainly give me more keepers too.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Kenneth Waller <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote: > > Saw a couple examples of the 70-210 F for sale @KEH- reasonable IMO. > > -----Original Message----- >>From: "P.J. Alling" <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> >>Subject: Another tail of woe... >> >>Now this is downright painful, yesterday I'm taking the lens hood off >>the F 70-210mm and it's a bit stiff unscrewing, (I'm using a hood from a >>Super Takumar 150mm f4.0, works perfectly with the 70-210mm on the >>K20D), and it's a bit stiff coming off, I must have bunged up the >>threads. Funny I didn't notice it being stiff going on. Well I had to >>apply a little bit of force and as it begins to unscrew I hear a pop... >>Now the moving/focusing elements of the lens are unmoored from the >>focusing helical, and worse the entire front housing be partially >>removed from the lens barrel exposing part of the focusing helical. So >>life hoovers, yet it gets even better! The backup/redundant Vivitar S1 >>is off for repair because it's stopdown lever is binding. It seems that >>all of my equipment is broken. >> >>-- >>There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive >>failure, and those that will. > > > > -- > 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.
