> The LTD lenses take this progression to the next level and have > almost gone full circle to present an AF lens that feels more like > a traditional MF(ocus) lens.
...unless you actually have to focus it. I'm sorry to disagree, Rob, but I don't care for the "whirry" focus feel of either the 43/1.9 or the 77/1.8. (There seems to me to be a big difference between the "silky" feel of a good manual focus lens and the "cement mixer" feel of some - but not all - of the autofocus lenses.) I much prefer the feel of the FA* 85/1.4 (due to its clutch, I guess) to either of the Limited lenses that I've tried. Fred