Hi, Godfrey. I am glad you seem to be enjoying your new lens so much - <g>.
> The FA135/2.8 arrived last week. [nsip] But it works very well wide open > and is stunning by f/4, all the while being light and compact. Very much > appreciating that aspect of Pentax lenses. Canon's premium lenses are all > huge and very heavy by comparison. Well, this is certainly no defense of Canon lenses, and certainly is not intended as any criticism of the FA 135/2.8 (which is a lens I'm not familiar with), but I would just say that the FA 135/2.8 is not exactly a "premium lens". Would any Canon 135/2.8 be all that much larger or heavier? Of my favorite 135's, the K 135/2.5 is a bit heavy, the VS1 135/2.4 is heavier still, and the A* 135/1.8 is certainly a heavyweight. However, the K lens is a little faster than "usual", and the other two are definitely "premium lenses" - I would expect them all to be heavier than the FA 135/2.8. Fred
