On Aug 17, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
A big concern for me is that if I buy a Pentax DSLR (and I'm ~this
close~
to doing so), there's no assurance that there will be lenses
available in
the focal and aperture range that I'd like. As it stands now,
there are
only a few primes faster than f2.0 that are available (31,43,77 -
did I
miss any?) and these are only minimally faster. Should I want a
fast auto
focus prime lens, what's out there? If I want a constant aperture
zoom,
what's available?
Used lenses are fine, but I am slowly replacing out my most-used
focal lengths with new AF lenses as I prefer the options they
provide. Just received a new FA35/2. Got the new FA20-35/4 in June.
Almost bought a new FA50/1.4 two weeks ago when B&H got in a batch of
them, but decided that the F50/1.7 I obtained as NOS a few months ago
would be fine.
So far, I haven't had much problem buying new lenses in the focal
lengths I want. f/2 and f/2.8 seems fast enough for most of my needs;
considering how clean the images are at ISO 800, f/4 is generally
good enough too.
Godfrey
