finding camera lens

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Looking for a wide angle lens (17-30mm)for Praktica or Pentax screw mount camera.

-- Alison Dawson (Islandliving2@cs.com), April 03, 2002

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Unfortunately zooms of that range are a modern phenom.Im not sure if such wide angle zooms were ever made back in your camera's era.And Im not sure if anyone currently uses the screw mount for a modern camera system?.(Try to find out if any camera maker still produces modern lenses in screw mount.)This would be the place to look,rather than any older zooms.The cheap zooms of old were dark,fuzzy & took crappy photos. There are many used fixed focal wide angles in screw mount,if you could abandon the zoom idea?.The Pentax Takumars are really excellant lenses too.Their 17,24,& 28mm's still fetch good money on the used market.Stopped down these will rival the best German glass,or so the rumor says.Good luck & happy shooting

-- edsel adams (mrchippy628@aol.com), April 04, 2002.

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