How Is The Site Organized?

• To begin, choose "Begin Viewing Lens Comments" from the menu bar above.
• The scrolling Index frame on the left provides a set of short-cuts into the comments.
• You will be able to access two kinds of information:
  • "Brief Comments" - simple short phrases about a given lens or lens comparison
  • "Detailed Comments" - more extended quotations from sometimes lengthy discussions of given lenses or lens comparisons.
• The short-cuts from the Index menu on the left will take you to Brief Comments. The list which appears here when you begin will also contain Brief comments.
• By clicking on the name (lens designation) at the start of a group of comments you will be able to go "sideways" between Brief and Detailed comments on a given lens.
• NOTE: In cases where there has been much discussion about a lens, all of the Detailed Comments have NOT been summarized within the Brief Comments. I have tried to be true to the original opinion when I edited the originators' messages for the Detailed Comments portion, and I try to give an accurate representation of the range of opinions when I select and edit from Detailed Comments for he Brief Comments section. But hey, you may find that I screwed up. Let me know and I will fix any problem and/or return all of the fees you have paid me to use this site. To get the full flavor of comments made about a lens you should always go to the Detailed Comments.
• Each type of information is organized by the focal length of the lens in question; this follows the usual conventions for this type of listing: Wide Angle before Telephoto, faster lenses before slower ones of the same focal length, older lenses before newer ones of the same focal length and maximum aperture.
• You should always check to see if there is information available on a lens similar to the one you are concerned with. Many Pentax Discuss message threads wander among several lenses and it is difficult to parse those discussions into short meaningful phrases on a particular lens. Thus, you may find a passing comment about a 43mm f/1.9 or a 50mm f/1.7 lens in the comments on 50mm f/2.0 lenses. In some cases I have pasted the same comments into more than one location.
• I originally adopted the category system originally used by Boz Dimitrov on his excellant web site (see links) ; however, I have integrated some of what he called "special purpose" lenses into this list; the common macro lenses are an example of this. Boz has since conceded the point and he also now integraates the "special purpose" lenses into the general listing.

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