On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 8/17/2006 9:58:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The rumoured prices are quite steep, though; $1000 for the 18-50, and $1300 > for the 50-135. Still, that's "only" $3500 or so for a K10D, battery grip, > and both the f2.8 zooms; I was anticipating a significantly higher total. > ========== > I don't know, at those prices, maybe I ought to stop being so snooty about > the older manual zooms.
There's only one 2.8 manual zoom and it's not great I don't think. Would the sum of the above two lenses buy an FA* 80-200/2.8? In the UK it's 1.6K GBP (3K USD) new. Can't reach them and they won't work on my MZ-S, but still the price comparison is very, very favourable. Kostas -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
