Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-20 Thread gldnbearz
Glad to see your morning accident didn't have to stop you from enjoying other lenses. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > I met Nino, the guy with the FA43 for sale at lunch today. I probably > could have gotten it for the DA40 + $100, something that I could at > least pretend t

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-20 Thread Fernando
That's what I use the DA40 for. It goes with my istD or istDs. After loosing a beautiful vacation shot for using crappy P&S, I don't do P&S anymore. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > I met Nino, the guy with the FA43 for sale at lunch today. I probably > could have gotten it f

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-20 Thread Larry Colen
I met Nino, the guy with the FA43 for sale at lunch today. I probably could have gotten it for the DA40 + $100, something that I could at least pretend to afford. Optically, the lens is sweet, and I'd really love the extra speed. But, the niche my DA 40 fills is that with it on my K100, the combin

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-20 Thread Paul Stenquist
Didn't Pentax reward him with a DA* 300/4 or soemthing like that? Paul (Who is well endowed but doesn't own a lot of lenses.) On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:47 PM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "David J Brooks" Subject: Re: Potential LBA, FA43 Somethin

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-20 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "David J Brooks" Subject: Re: Potential LBA, FA43 Something along the lines of: Lens Buying Addict or Addiction. And the guy who coined it is no where near as well endowed with lenses as I am. Bastards. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:34 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > Something along the lines of: > Lens Buying Addict or Addiction. I didn't think it would be Lima Bean Agglutinin... Thanks, Dave. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
Something along the lines of: Lens Buying Addict or Addiction. Dave On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:27 PM, frank theriault wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:45 PM, David Savage wrote: >> LBA >> >> God I hate that term. > > Lima Bean Agglutinin? > > Local Bus Adapter? > > Laser Balloon Angioplasty?

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:45 PM, David Savage wrote: > LBA > > God I hate that term. Lima Bean Agglutinin? Local Bus Adapter? Laser Balloon Angioplasty? Seriously, what does it mean? I'm so out of it when it comes to initialisms... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Hen

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-19 Thread Larry Colen
I got an email from him saying that he was free all evening. I called him up to say that I really couldn't justify buying the FA43 right now, but if he didn't get any other offers, maybe in a while we could work something out. It turns out that he has both a black and a silver FA43 and is selling

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-19 Thread Larry Colen
I thought about it pretty hard, chatting with a buddy at work. The reality of the situation is that I just cannot afford to go for it right now. It's very tempting, but having thrown close to $1000 at gear in the past couple of weeks (K20, spare charger, spare batteries, katzeye), not to mention so

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-19 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Mar 19, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Larry Colen wrote: How much bigger is the 43 than the DA 40 with the sunshade? Here you go: Hood http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3440/3368559389_db7057ef22_b.jpg No hood http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3438/3369384080_12979851ac_b.jpg Thanks a bunch. It looks like

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-19 Thread Larry Colen
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 08:35:36PM -0400, Fernando wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > How much bigger is the 43 than the DA 40 with the sunshade? > Here you go: > > Hood > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3440/3368559389_db7057ef22_b.jpg > > No hood > http://farm4.sta

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-19 Thread Fernando
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > How much bigger is the 43 than the DA 40 with the sunshade? Here you go: Hood http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3440/3368559389_db7057ef22_b.jpg No hood http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3438/3369384080_12979851ac_b.jpg -- http://www.flickr.com/p

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-19 Thread David Savage
LBA God I hate that term. 2009/3/20 Larry Colen : > There's an FA43 on craigslist for $390. This seems to be a pretty good > price for the lens, but I don't see a lot of examples of used ones for > sale to compare. > > How much bigger is the 43 than the DA 40 with the sunshade? Having > both le

Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-19 Thread Larry Colen
There's an FA43 on craigslist for $390. This seems to be a pretty good price for the lens, but I don't see a lot of examples of used ones for sale to compare. How much bigger is the 43 than the DA 40 with the sunshade? Having both lenses would be rather redundant, as well as brutal on my finances.