Quote: And to whomever said people would be embarrassed to put an old lens on a new ff dslr
it wasn't so much old glass, it's just that if you look at the resolving power of the Nikon zooms in my post, I doubt my old Pentax kit lenses are going to measure up. If the resolving power of the FA 35-80 I paid $49 is up there on par with the Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 AFS ($1963 at Henry's) or eve the Nikkor 24-85 3.5-4.5 VR that comes as a kit on the D600, no one will be happier than I. Just these Nikon lenses are all new lenses designed to make use of the resolving power of the new sensors. Some of you may be telling me that Nikon is just catching up with what Pentax always had, but I'm not going to believe that until I see it.
So let me rephrase, I would be embarrassed to be using a lens that didn't make full use of the resolving capabilities of the sensor. Age has nothing to do with it, except that all the Pentax FF lenses are old. Some like the DFA 100 WR have been updated for digital. Most have not.
I agree with others, I want to see what the FAs will do, but I own the FA 50 1.7 and it produces some wicked purple fringing from time to time.
Originally posted by frank Some of you guys got nothing else to do? Why not just go out and take some photos? Trust me, it's far better than sitting here 'doing' nothing?
It's 30 below right now, I'm waiting until it get up to -20 so I can take my dogs for a walk. It's nice to sit and chew the fat for a bit.