What i want to do is not buying a lens that just fits the aps size, where after two years a full frame sensor comes out and you can sell your D-lenses.
So when i can live some time with this, until a full frame is there....

besides that i sometimes use a 645 120macro with an adapter on my mz-s, (manual). Nice quality but not usable for quick moving insects...

Just hope WJ Bons can follow these posts! LOL!

No problem!

I ask this because i see on the pentax product page:

The PENTAX smc P-D FA 100mm F2.8 macro is designed specifically for digital cameras. It utilizes curvature and positioning of optical elements to virtually eliminate flare and ghosting for clear, high-quality images particularly important to digital photography. This versatile lens can also be used a telephoto lens and features our acclaimed multi-layer coating to lower surface reflection, reduce ultraviolet rays, and deliver clear, high-contrast images.

Is the 1.5 factor (making it a 150 lens) a benefit? Does the DOF stay the same?

Thanks.

Hi,
i saw some 100 2.8 macro lenses which where quite cheap now.

what's the quality aspect when put onto a digital ist camera? Do you need the D variant or not?

Willie Jan

so one of my key points for pentax, hitting the aperture ring and youre in manual mode is gone...

can anybody reply on how the *FA 85 1.4 behaves on a digital pentax? I use it on a mz-s for theater work and am investigating when to go over to the digital platform for 35mm...

oops, this was me not logged in.

bloody XP cookies.

Joshua,
can't we infiltrate into pentax to find out

at this moment matt, i scan some of my 35mm, 6x12 and 4x5 for my website www.foto-art.nl. Specially for my theater work and newspaper photos i would prefer digital. Besides that my heart is with the 4x5 in the landscape....

i am searching for a digital system besides my mz-s & 645nii....

But until now i do not know for sure to stay with pentax (for digital) or to step over to a different provider. The d200 seems nice to me, but i hear a lot of problems... I already have nice lenses (FA 50 1.4, FA 85 1.4, FA 24-90 ED,FA 300 4.5 ED), but am not sure how they behave on the digital variants... besides that i would prefer a minimum of 10Mb, six is in my mind to low.

regards,

Willie Jan.