On Oct 16, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Cotty wrote: > On 16/10/07, P. J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> You would have been just as well served with the SMC T 17mm f 4.0, >> and >> could have avoided surgery, (you beast). > > I dislike the focus ring on these lenses. I prefer the later rubber > grips.
Having bought a Fish-Eye-Takumar 17/4 after enjoying Cotty's K17/4 FE so much, I have to agree with him. The two lenses are near as nothing to identical performance-wise, but the K17/4 FE is nicer to use. Beauty shots of L1 with both of them: http://homepage.mac.com/godders/PANL1-17MM/ The minor advantage of the M42 lens is that it has an A/M switch on it, so you can have it stopped down to optimum aperture (f/7.1 to f/8 by my testing) and flip it from wide open to stopped down with the flick of a switch for focusing then metering and exposure. But most of the time I focus by zone and just leave the switch in the M position, with the lens stopped down. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
