The SMC Pentax-DA 35mm F2.4 AL is a budget lens sold for only $219.95 from Pentax, meaning it will likely be even cheaper from other retailers. This lens features SP coating. The DA 35mm is available in 12 different colors. Despite being labeled as a DA lens (as opposed to DA L), it does NOT feature quick-shift focusing, and has a plastic bayonet as well as no distance scale on the focusing ring.
Unlike its previous brothers, the DA 35mm f/2.8 Limited Macro and the classic FA 35mm f/28 AL, this nice little gem uses a plastic mount as stated above, hence this is called a DA-L type of lens. As said from some reviews, Pentax used the "almost" same optics/glass elements of FA 35mm f/2.8 AL on this and thus was said to be the re-incarnation of the said FA lens.
Right now, I'm really bent on owning this lens and might ask somebody to buy it for me elsewhere, as the info I got that there's no definite date yet when it will be released by a local distributor here. I can't afford to get either the DA 35mm f/2.8 Limited Macro nor the FA 35mm f/28 AL even with the price of a second-hand. And I'm also really drooling on the output it shows from this reviews.
I'm not a naughty boy, Santa. So...
3 comments:
I ditched my DA 50-200mm WR for a FA 28mm F2.8 because I wanted a decent walk around lens.. Sometimes I fee that the focal length is too wide.I think 35mm would be better!
I ditched my DA 50-200mm WR for a FA 28mm F2.8 because I wanted a decent walk around lens.. Sometimes I fee that the focal length is too wide.I think 35mm would be better!
So you have the FA 28 now... Wow! I envy you! I really can't afford those classic FA's that's why I'm just eyeing on this one. And unlike you, if ever I acquired this, it'll complement my DA 50-200mm ED as a 2-lens shooting combo...
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