On 24 Apr 2004 at 19:19, Mark Roberts wrote: > OK, here's a new question: > > What camera or lens have you bought that you regretted purchasing?
I think I'll nominate a camera kit. The Contax G2, the lenses were excellent but the camera hoovered, particularly the focus system and finder. But I got out of it without too much skin off so I'm not bitter and twisted :-) > I'll go first because my answer will startle you at first: > > Pentax A20/2.8 > (Now the other shoe drops)..... because now that I have an ist-D I wish > I'd bought the autofocus version, the FA20/2.8 instead. Wow, is AF of that much consequence with this length of lens? I've been using mine quite successfully with the *ist D and I suspect that in the situation that it may be useful the AF would probably fail, its AF performance hasn't instilled be with confidence to this point. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
