J and K Messervy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's this lens like? Any good? It's not particularly wide, but I've > found one that's affordable. > > Would I be better off waiting for a 55?
Hi James, It depends on what you are looking for... The 90mm (the "normal" one, not the leaf shutter one) is the only 67 lens I bought new. I was looking for a normal lens (I already had the 55 and the 165 at the time) but I wasn't sure I would have liked the close focusing ability of the 105 so I went for the 90. It is a great all-around wide-normal lens (in terms of field of view it is closer to a 43mm on the 135 cameras, so if you are looking for a wide lens it may be disappointing), very small although not light for the size. The pictures are reasonably sharp at all apertures (I've been told that for wide open performance the 105mm is a bit better), definitely tack sharp when stopped down from 4-5-6 to 16. Only flaw is a tiny bit of distorsion when focusing quite close, but nothing really annoying (I used it for architecture a couple of times and it was not an issue). Hope this helps. Ciao, Gianfranco _ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
