Thanks—to both of you. On Aug 27, 2014, at 12:33 PM, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well those the first two reviews are enough to give me pause about the Tokina > >> Not really sharp at any aperture > > followed by a glowing review, bodes ill for extreme sample variation. It's > not in production and you'd be buying used in any case so the try and return > until you get a good copy is problematic. > > The Tamron seems to suffer from thee same extreme sample variation and it's > getting progressively more difficult to find adaptall K mount adapters, let > alone KA adapters the latter alone can end up costing more than a good lens. > > > On 8/27/2014 5:08 AM, Eric Featherstone wrote: >> On 25 August 2014 23:12, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >>> On Aug 25, 2014, at 5:58 PM, Bryan Jacoby <bryan.jac...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> If you don't mind a little more size and weight, the new Sigma 18-35mm >>>> f/1.8 looks like it might be a good replacement for wide primes in >>>> terms of image quality and speed (actually it's faster than any primes >>>> I know of in the shorter end of its range). It's not cheap but >>>> neither are those lenses on KEH. >>> Thanks, Bryan. They’re all out of my price range. >> >> Just a thought; how about the Tokina SL 17mm f/3.5 >> http://www.pentaxforums.com/userreviews/tokina-sl-17-17mm-f-3-5.html >> or Tamron adaptall SP 17mm f/3.5 >> http://www.pentaxforums.com/userreviews/tamron-adaptall-2-sp-17mm-f-3-5-51b.html >> > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle -- 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.
