Anupam Routh wrote:
>Hi Friends!I saw in KEH website a used autofocus 70-200 f4-5.6 lens....
Anupam,
I think this is a non-SMC, Takumar lens. Check Stan Halpin's site
(http://www.concentric.net/~smhalpin) for reviews of this and many, many
more Pentax lenses. He has a link to Boz Dimitrov's site
(http://www.phred.org/pentax/k/) -- also a good link. Stan's site lists a
comment from a Gene Poon on the 70-200, in relation to some 70-210 zooms.
This particular user didn't seem impressed with the 70-200:
>>Do not confuse either with the Pentax-F 70-200, however. That one is a
Canadian
>>marketed lens which was sold in the USA as the Takumar-F 70-200. Note that
it is not
>>marked SMC. I can see the difference; though it is not a bad lens, the SMC
are better....
You might wish to consider an SMC-F 70-210/4-5.6 instead. (However, it
doesn't look like KEH has any of these right now. They list a bunch of
Takumar stuff that's supposedly f/4-5.6 -- I think this is a different and
lesser lens.) Reviews I've read of this one are favorable, and Mark Roberts
(one of our list members) really likes his. Also saw some positive comments
about the SMC-F 80-200/4.7-5.6. I think this one might be quite a bit more
compact than the SMC-F 70-210/4-5.6. Good luck!
Bill Peifer
Rochester, NY
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