Dear Discerning Pentaxer,
I like your approach. I have just made a belated new years Resolution,
and I, too, shall become more discerning and discrimination.
>From now on all lenses shall be checked with computer-controlled,
digitally operated, multi-function test equipment for focusing torqu
> You can never be to picky, just as you can never be too rich or too thin
>
And I only have a chance of being ~one~ of these - .
> Like you, I don't find the difference between a good K-mount and a good
> Super Tak to be that great. I seem to prefer some lenses of one type
> over some of the
>It's not the sound, really - it's the whirring ~feel~ that I don't
>care for. And (despite the fact that some feel I am altogether just
>too damned picky about this efect), the sensation is so slight in
>the F* 300/4.5 that I really don't mind it at all. (Really!) On
>the other hand, I think I
You can never be to picky, just as you can never be too rich or too thin
Like you, I don't find the difference between a good K-mount and a good
Super Tak to be that great. I seem to prefer some lenses of one type
over some of the other - IOW, they both feel good.
We all have our preferences
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Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 12:59 PM
Subject: Built-in Hood Action in F* 300/4.5 (and others?)
> Since I don't have much experience with the newer AF lenses with
> hoods, my question is this: Is the hood action in the F* 300/4.5
> similar to the action with ~other~
Yep, you're too damned picky. Comes from being raised on early K-mounts
and Super Taks.
Fred wrote:
> Also, as a (much-criticized) critic of the "whirring" manual focus
> feel in some of the AF lenses, I do have to say that the AF/MF
> clutch in the F* 300/4.5 (as in the FA* 85/1.4) does make f
Recently I picked up an F* 300/4.5 lens (with the monster tripod
bracket and the unusual dedicated soft case for the lens and
bracket).
At first I was concerned about the lens hood behavior. Extending
the hood required unscrewing the hood a bit before pulling it out
(and I figured that out quick
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