Re: 28-105 powerzoom vs 28-70/4

2001-03-12 Thread Douglas E Harmon
armon [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personal.mia.bellsouth.net/~genius91/ - Original Message - From: Mark Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:50 AM Subject: Re: 28-105 powerzoom vs 28-70/4 : I own both and like both. When I bough

Re: 28-105 powerzoom vs 28-70/4

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Stringer
battery pack, a very light combo for family shooting or walking around. However, I also am gravitating back to primes for speed and quality. - Original Message - From: "adrian sorescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 1:48 AM Subject:

Re: 28-105 powerzoom vs 28-70/4

2001-03-11 Thread Gary L. Murphy
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:07:54 -0500, Mark Cassino wrote: >I have the black 80-320 - aren't the two identical except for the color? I don't know. That's why I asked. :-) > I personally have found it to be a very nice lens. That's what I needed to know Wonder why they dropped the black one?

Re: 28-105 powerzoom vs 28-70/4

2001-03-11 Thread Mark Cassino
I have the black 80-320 - aren't the two identical except for the color?  I personally have found it to be a very nice lens. - MCC At 10:44 PM 3/10/01 -0600, Gary L. Murphy wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:19:45 -0500, Mark Cassino wrote: >For me - the 28-70 and 80-320 make a great pair, easy to c

Re: 28-105 powerzoom vs 28-70/4

2001-03-10 Thread Todd Stanley
At 11:19 PM 3/10/01 -0500, you wrote: (Hey - just now understand what "Pz" stands for!) Hehehe. Now guess what MZ stands for! Todd - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pen

Re: 28-105 powerzoom vs 28-70/4

2001-03-10 Thread Mark Cassino
I have both the FA 28-70 and the FA 28-105.  Optically I'd consider them to be nearly equivalent. There is some light falloff in the 28-70 that seems to be worse than in the 28-105, but in terms of sharpness etc I don't see any difference between them -- but, I have never done formal tests.  T