[vievetrick]

Staff note: This post may contain affiliate links, which means Pentax Forums may earn a small commission if a visitor clicks through and makes a purchase. If you would like to support the forum directly, you may also make a donation here.

---

Anybody have this or have any thoughts on this lens? May be getting one and wondering about it's quality.

[Vulpix]

I had a Canon mount once before, and it was an insanely sharp copy wide open. The bokeh was much creamier than the Sigma 70-200mm that I had later. Why did I change to the Sigma? I needed the focusing speed.

[vievetrick]

did you have the MF or AF . The one I am looking at is MF.

[roscot]

Sorry Pat,
Lots of info on the AF versions, can't find anything on the MF lenses.

[vievetrick]

That is okay, I have suddenly got the case of LBA and looking hard on ebay. Actually only bidding on the ones I find that look like nobody else is watching , so followed another one last night and it ended well past my bed time. wondering if anyone here got this one. eBay: Pentex ME Super + lenses and flash (item 260084450608 end time Feb-13-07 21:42:30 PST)

those that think you can't find deals still on ebay are not looking hard enough. I was not at all bothered I did not get this one and almost shared it with everyone before the bidding ended to see if anyone else was interested. But then I got a worried that maybe someone else was bidding from here and did not want to drive it out of control. Still the winner I think got a decent lot. well, maybe a littel high but still not bad. Wonder what he would have got had he spelled more then half the words right

[fwcetus]

Anybody have this or have any thoughts on this lens? May be getting one and wondering about it's quality.

IMHO, both the manual focus and the autofocus Tokina AT-X 80-200/2.8's are quite good buys. For exposure convenience with the manual focus version, it is worth looking for the ones with Ka-mount trim - there are both pre-A K-mount and full Ka-mount versions out there.