Adam has responded about the differences. I have a similar impression, although I never used the A myself.
Just in case: I do not see any of the said lenses at KEH right now. There is a bunch of 70-200 F and one 70-210 F4-5.6 TAKUMAR F - Both are as far as I understand are completely different beasts from those you are asking about (that's why they are cheap), and IIRC, at least the latter one is not SMC. The same story is with the MF lenses: they have only 70-200 F4 TAKUMAR A. (non-SMC, if I am correct). When I was trying to figure it out for myself - about a year ago, - my conclusion that of all Pentax lenses in the range 70(80) - 200(210) only 70-210 F SMC and 70-210 A SMC are good performers, and the rest are not worth much attention. HTH, Igor Wed Nov 22 07:36:50 EST 2006 Walter Hamler wrote: Any differenced between the Pentax 70~210 F vs the A version? KEH Camera has several of each at very nice prices. Walt -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
