Did you hear about the 8 additional colors they're offering in Europe for the Pentax K-x?
The additional 8 colors are: Beige, Chocolate, Metal Dark Gray, Metal Fuchsia, Metal Turquoise, Olive Green, Pink, and Soft Brown.
Nice lens but if you want to save money, second-hand ones often sell for not much more than $100. The older kit lens was redesigned and is a "II" model now but I'm not sure off the top of my head if the 50-200 was ever updated... if not, the old ones should be as good (or better, some new ones are "L" lightweight ones.)This is a topic I'm trying to weigh out as well. I have been watching Craigslist and ebay, and the old manual focus lenses are a lot cheaper, but I'm still leaning towards saving up for that $200 Pentax smc DA 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED Lens (copied from the website... I dont know what half of those numbers mean!!!)
Well... the build quality of older lenses is often much better than new ones... and manual focus lenses tend to have a much nicer feel on the focus ring. The older lenses are generally all metal and have a sturdy, heavy feel to them. Of course, advancements have been made in optics and modern lenses have better coatings and more advanced designs... but the better-quality older prime lenses are often as sharp as many of today's lenses, but often with worse chromatic aberrations. The older zoom lenses are certainly not up to the optical quality of today's. Many of us like the older lenses because of the nice feel of them and they often give a unique "look" that isn't the same as modern lenses.New may be lighter?Is it cheaper made? More to break?
An example: (just stick with me... I'm trying to make a point...)
In home audio and car audio you want OLD equipment. I'm still running 1980s car amps in all my vehicles. They are rated at 25 watts per channel (Orion HCCA 225 hand made in USA) They will flat out DESTROY these new 2000 watt amps that are mass-made today in China. They also (obviously) last longer and can take more abuse. Are lenses the same principle?
Very cool. I would have a hard time choosing.Did you hear about the 8 additional colors they're offering in Europe for the Pentax K-x?
The additional 8 colors are: Beige, Chocolate, Metal Dark Gray, Metal Fuchsia, Metal Turquoise, Olive Green, Pink, and Soft Brown.
Where have you seen bad reviews of the 50mm F2? Pretty much all the Pentax 50mm primes are fantastic; the F2s are generally available for dirt cheap because they are common and people tend to go for the F1.7 and F1.4 versions to get a little extra speed - but optically, the F2 is still great.
