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From: John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone have experience, opinions and/or samples for the FA 28-70/ f4
AL? I just picked up a used copy for $75 and will not have a chance to
test it out until I get back home from travel for work.
The lens appears to be
Popular Photo found the lens to be very fine but they noted than at
28mm its vignetting was caused, they tought, by a circle not wide
enough for 24X36. Don't know it this makes sense. Maybe someone
could check out the exact words they used.
Andre
Does anyone have experience, opinions and/or samples for the FA 28-70/
f4 AL? I just picked up a used copy for $75 and will not have a
chance to test it out until I get back home from travel for work.
The lens appears to be in great shape, but the focus ring seems
pretty loose at least off
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From: John Taylor
Subject: Feedback on FA 28-70 F4.0 AL
Does anyone have experience, opinions and/or samples for the FA 28-70/ f4
AL? I just picked up a used copy for $75 and will not have a chance to
test it out until I get back home from travel for work
The scuttlebutt hearsay on this lens is that they are prone to
element separation due to some quality control issues in assembly.
That said, if you got a good one, the other scuttlebutt I've heard is
that a good one is superb. For a one-stop light loss compared to the
f/2.8 model, I'd much
It's a great lens, until the composite,(glassplastic) aspheric element
in the rear of the lens seperates. Then it's horrible. There are no
spare parts available and the seperation is a matter of time, mine did
while sitting on a shelf for three months. I've seen a few on sale on
e-Bay
Not a quality control problem, it's a design flaw.
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
The scuttlebutt hearsay on this lens is that they are prone to
element separation due to some quality control issues in assembly.
That said, if you got a good one, the other scuttlebutt I've heard is
that a good
I have a couple of these lenses. I bought the first one second-hand, for
use with studio flash, since it has a constant aperture, making exposures
very straightforward. It soon became my daily lens (in preference to the
28-200 f3.8-5.6), so I bought a second one, new this time, to be sure I'd
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