Alan Chan wrote: > Personally, I don't care much about the label, but the actually design > of the lens. They are just what I have been waiting for all these years > - M lens quality with AF.
This is exactly how I felt when I was starting to get the AF bug. I wanted an AF "normal" lens and the build of the F/FA 50mm f/1.7's did not impress me at all, with my background of K-series glass. The NZ distributor had a 43mm in stock (surprisingly enough) which they let me borrow for a week. Just handling it and using it was enough to convince me that unless the optics were of Barbie-cam quality, I just had to buy it. Its the only lens I've ever bought new. Sometimes its hard to convince people that you paid double the price just for better build. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
