Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
12-06-2014, 10:08 PM
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I personally have not seen the type of divide you are speaking about in this forum. I have seen some say that "many" of the older lenses aren't all that good. I would have to agree but there are many older lenses that are really good, both from Pentax and other manufacturers. One that comes to mind would be some years of the old 70-210 Vivitar series one lenses. Plus a lot of great FA lenses. One of my biggest disappointments has been that one of the main reasons I got into Pentax was the legacy lenses you always here about. The problem is they are generally quite expensive and not that easy to find. A lot of people talk about the millions of great legacy lenses you can get for great prices but I guess I have been looking the wrong places because the "really good ones" don't come cheap at all in my experience. I did find a nice 50mm 1.7 Takumar all manual for $50. But I finally gave up and bought new. You can find good deals on used modern lenses like the Tamron and Sigma 17-50 zooms and I did see a used Pentax 100mm macro for $500 which I would have loved to get but had just purchased a new 90mm macro Tamron. Also as one poster put it I have seen what I consider to be a fair amount of prime snobbery. Then again I like high quality zooms so maybe I'm the snob.
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