Originally posted by legacyb4 Ah, I figured the cat's out of the bag from the original post anyway.
Worst case, I think I've made up my mind and am going to try and flip the Canon 17-40 F4 (great lens, btw) for either a FA 31mm Ltd. or a DA 21mm.
Cheers.
Yeah, my post was directed more at the OP who mentioned seeing it in the Vancouver CL - you were the result of him not keeping it low
The Pentax FA* 28-70 2.8 is expensive, but not more so than the 28-70(75)'s from Nikon, etc. Tamron has that great alternative, otherwise we'd probably not even be questioning the FA*'s value.
Myself - I don't know if I'd spring for the FA*, but I could probably convince myself to if I had both the Tammy and the FA* for a day and saw a difference.
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