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Comment by giofi posted on Is it April 1st yet? at 28/03/2013 - 06:00
I£6.49 a set of six ink cartridges from Amazon at same time!
Comment by giofi posted on Home Printing (part one) at 27/03/2013 - 17:07
Which lens(es) do you have at the moment?
Comment by giofi posted on Lens Selection Help! at 27/03/2013 - 09:15
After lookibg,at this thread and some.of the excellent shots I have realised that 30-35mm is a gap in my growing arsenal of primes that I may have to remedy......
Best regards
Comment by giofi posted on Lens Shootout:: Pentax Prime Lenses 30-35mm at 27/03/2013 - 05:54
First of all, if it is true that the DA is a repackaged FA, that explains the stellar performance. Have a look for instance here
Second, also the FA is a plastic lens, nothing like limited lenses. So also from that point of view there would not be a great difference...
I add here John Riley's review of the lens...
I would buy the DA 35 2.4 and see how you like it.
Comment by giofi posted on WTB: FA35 2.0 at 24/03/2013 - 17:04
My experience has always been good and I found sellers to be very attentive to customer service. I had some problems a couple of times and I was offered refund immediately.
Comment by giofi posted on Chinese accessories at 23/03/2013 - 11:05
Ahoy!
I've got my beady eye on this lens and would like to get qualified advice regarding it's quality and used price guide. It retails for circa £700.00 which makes me think that it's either grossly over-priced (I haven't done a comparison to either the more affordable, but highly rated kit lens replacement Tamron 17-50/2.8 Di-II or the Sigma 17-70 DC Macro) or if it's in the Carl Zeiss league. User reviews score it very highly, so if anyone here can shed some light on the matter in terms of quality, price and whether it's a coveted optic, it would be appreciated. It needs to be something pretty special to command the kind of money it retails for.
TIA.
To me it seems it is priced somewhat below competition for similar lenses. I checked on cameranu.nl (SRS does not have a Canon equivalent) and prices are as follows:
Pentax 16-50 2.8 849e
Canon 17-55 2.8 899e
Nikon 17-55 2.8 1189e
So I would conclude that it is realistically priced. Another story is whether these lenses are worth the cost over Tamron or Sigma....
Comment by giofi posted on Pentax SMC DA* 16-50mm F/2.8 ED AL (IF) SDM at 23/03/2013 - 08:07
David,
Can you please tell me which adapter you use? Thanks
link
Cheers
David
Comment by giofi posted on M42 to K mount adaptors at 21/03/2013 - 05:50
Can you please tell me which adapter you use? Thanks
Comment by giofi posted on M42 to K mount adaptors at 20/03/2013 - 22:17
Comment by giofi posted on FS: Pentax SMC 75-150 'M' at 20/03/2013 - 17:15
Unless they are working on a FF concept that is so radically different that it does require a new mount.
I wonder if Ricoh/Pentax have considered another path, selling limiteds with other mounts..... that would be interesting