Re: 28-105 FA 3.2-4.5

[Arnold Stark]

Francis Tang schrieb:

> Does anyone know anything more than what is on Boz's site about the 28-105 FA 
>3.2-4.5?  I've been looking around to try and find a price, but no place seems to 
>stock it!

"Pentax Flash", a consumer magazine from Pentax Germany, introduces  the SMC Pentax-FA 
28-105mm/3.2-4.5 AL (IF) next to the 24-90mm.
The price of the 28-105 at www.technikdirekt.de is 629 DM (about 275 US$).

> I was just wondering if the new 28-105/3.2-4.5 plus the 20-35/4 would make a better 
>combo than the supposedly very expensive 24-90.  I think I'd prefer the two lens 
>setup, at the expense of "build quality" (or whatever the 24-90 is supposed to offer 
>to justify its price tag), if the combined price is comparable.

Looking at the pictures in Pentax Flash it is hard to see much of a difference of 
build/design of the 24-90 and the new 28-105, except that the 24-90 is black and the 
28-105 is silver. Both resemble the 28-70/f4 or maybe the 20-35. From looking at the 
weight (24-90: 355 g, 28-105:255g) one might think that the 24-90 was better build, 
however, the ratio of  weights is almost the same as the ratio of volumes (24-90: 
length=74.5mm , diameter=72mm; 28-105: length=65.5mm,
diameter=66mm), so the only real justification for the higher price of the 24-90 seems 
to be its wide end focal length...

Arnold

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28-105 FA 3.2-4.5

[Francis Tang]

Hello!

Does anyone know anything more than what is on Boz's site about the 28-105 FA 3.2-4.5? 
 I've been looking around to try and find a price, but no place seems to stock it!  
Does this lens really exist?  I remember from previous threads it was suggested that 
this is an original Pentax design, perhaps of the same lineage as the ever popular 
28-70/4 (as opposed to the Tamron designed 28-105/4-5.6) and the suspicion was that it 
would be similar to the 28-70/4 in performance.

I was just wondering if the new 28-105/3.2-4.5 plus the 20-35/4 would make a better 
combo than the supposedly very expensive 24-90.  I think I'd prefer the two lens 
setup, at the expense of "build quality" (or whatever the 24-90 is supposed to offer 
to justify its price tag), if the combined price is comparable.

Yours,

Frank.

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Francis Tang, Postgraduate Research Student, LFCS, Edinburgh.
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