Since most people only buy AP for the ads, why don't they omit the editorial altogether?

I think I'll put this suggestion to the publisher.

G

Whatever happened to compromise? You should have got a house-boat.

G

I have to say that I agree with Spider. Very odd.

Perhaps the number of people hoping for (and actually expecting) a 135-format DSLR from Pentax is greater than hitherto suspected.

Or perhaps just a few optimists are trying to corner the market in 135-format lenses, just as Nelson Bunker Hunt did with the silver market in the late seventies. (He got wiped out.)

Or perhaps Pentax really ARE going to turn myth into reality, and surprise the sober citizens. And Pentax employees-in-the-know are doing the buying.

But there is a flaw in all these suppositions. Why aren't the prices of other 135-format lens also taking off?

G
(Baffled)

Be grateful that it is only a house.

Now a boat, that's another matter altogether.

G

It's OK, I wasn't criticising your decision. I was simply echoing Matt's view, for the benefit of others who might be considering this lens, that it is excellent.

I have not heard anyone else complain of the focusing problem, so I assume I have just been unlucky.

G

Seany boy, I abhor sloppy thinking.

Let me repeat. There are no principles involved here. If you wish not to pay current prices, that is your prerogative.

G

I'm on a roll.

G

Agree with Matt. If you don't find the 17-70 to be very good, you have a bad example.

The image quality is barely inferior to the DA* 16-50. It really is a very good lens, optically.

Mine has a slight focusing issue, unfortunately. It's intermittent, and I fear that if I take it to be repaired it will behave itself while in the workshop.

I blame Murphy.

G

Clever the way the prog has removed the purple fringing from the image and placed it at the top.

G

Let's disassemble Mr McLennan, drop Damien Hurst into a vat of formaldehyde, and pour a load of concrete down Tracey Emin's throat.

That would be an exhibition I'd pay to see.

(Just joking, Damo and Trace. Love you really.)

G