http://www.dphotojournal.com/pentax-da-70mm-f24-limited-lens/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:39:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.dphotojournal.com/pentax-da-70mm-f24-limited-lens/#comment-111193 doug the photogeezer Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:57:01 +0000 http://www.dphotojournal.com/pentax-da-70mm-f24-limited-lens/#comment-111193 Pentax is really onto something dear to this travel photog's heart - seriously compact quality lenses. I cringe when I see other travelers cradling these huge 77-filter-size zooms like a drunk protecting his bottle. Pentax's 21mm pancake lens would handle 70% of my shooting needs, the K20D with this lens (or the 70mm) would fit nicely into a bag, and not shout "showoff foreigner with a "bigger is better" photographic contraption. In fact,Pentax may well be the thing that pries this geezer away from his old film SLR's and Leica CL, before decreasing availability of film and processing does this, anyway. . Pentax is really onto something dear to this travel photog’s heart - seriously compact quality lenses. I cringe when I see other travelers cradling these huge 77-filter-size zooms like a drunk protecting his bottle. Pentax’s 21mm pancake lens would handle 70% of my shooting needs, the K20D with this lens (or the 70mm) would fit nicely into a bag, and not shout “showoff foreigner with a “bigger is better” photographic contraption. In fact,Pentax may well be the thing that pries this geezer away from his old film SLR’s and Leica CL, before decreasing availability of film and processing does this, anyway. .

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