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Standard zoom options for the K1
I can share my experience using Tokina AT-X 28-70mm-f2.8 with K-1. It is the first version of these Tokinas, the one with light orange marking ring and 72 mm filter thread. I bought it long ago and occasionally used with K100d super as fast zoom. Later, with K5II I almost never used it, as 20-40 was...
Posted by Agrostemma on 15/05/2018 - 13:55
Standard zoom options for the K1
Thank you everybody for your replies. I'm currently torn between either the Tamron 28-75mm or the Pentax 24-90mm. Having looked online there are both good and bad reviews of both so I'm torn which one to get. Is anybody able to say if they have either of these lenses or have owned both of them to gi...
Posted by cardiffgareth on 21/05/2018 - 17:57
Standard zoom options for the K1
Thank you everybody for your replies. I'm currently torn between either the Tamron 28-75mm or the Pentax 24-90mm. Having looked online there are both good and bad reviews of both so I'm torn which one to get. Is anybody able to say if they have either of these lenses or have owned both of them to gi...
Posted by JAK on 21/05/2018 - 18:28
Standard zoom options for the K1
So my new standard zoom lens is here, plus a little gift from Steve Everitt for shooting his daughter's wedding :shock: 8) Mental less than a month ago I thought full frame was out of my reach but now I'm fully full framed up with the K3ii kept as a back up camera.
Posted by cardiffgareth on 25/05/2018 - 17:30
Standard zoom options for the K1
So my new standard zoom lens is here, plus a little gift from Steve Everitt for shooting his daughter's wedding :shock: 8) Mental less than a month ago I thought full frame was out of my reach but now I'm fully full framed up with the K3ii kept as a back up camera. Congrats :P Putting that wal...
Posted by HarisF1 on 25/05/2018 - 17:34
Standard zoom options for the K1
So my new standard zoom lens is here, plus a little gift from Steve Everitt for shooting his daughter's wedding :shock: 8) Mental less than a month ago I thought full frame was out of my reach but now I'm fully full framed up with the K3ii kept as a back up camera. Congrats :P Putting that wal...
Posted by Defragged on 25/05/2018 - 17:57
Standard zoom options for the K1
:lol: I've done alright with the selling of old lenses and purchasing of new that the lenses have cost less than £100 to upgrade too. Biggest thing was the K1 purchase that cost a grand but I was going to sell the K3ii to part fund it but my good wife to keep it as a back up body! Last piece ...
Posted by cardiffgareth on 25/05/2018 - 21:34
To repair or not to repair?
Mine rarely had time to go to sleep but drove me around the bend and the 50-135 was the worst, and by the way was replaced for a new lens once by Pentax. However the four in question were 4 years old and had been well used in some extreme climates. When I came back to UK after a couple of yea...
Posted by Daronl on 21/05/2018 - 03:36
SMC-A 50mm f1.7 - a 'problem' and a question.
The problem is easily solved - I can focus on the K10D screen easily (I started out with a Zenit 3m - plain screens don't scare me :wink:). Unfortunately, depending on whether I am wearing my glasses, which pair (reading or distance) and how the correction dioptre thingy is set, what I see as in foc...
Posted by Aitch53 on 01/06/2018 - 12:02
Top Secret!
Given my only "full frame" cameras are manual focus I'll stick to one of my collection of "vintage" nifty fifties. I'm glad there are new lenses coming out, however, if only to show the brand isn't dead in the water. K.
Posted by womble on 08/06/2018 - 22:23
Comparing Close-Up Lens Choices
I was asked a question a while back when I first got the D FA28-105mm, about how it compared with the F35-70mm. I remembered this when I found these little flowers to photograph, and as well I got out my Tamron 70-300. So I had the DFA (non-macro but very close focussing), the F35-70 (1:4 macro) an...
Posted by McGregNi on 17/06/2018 - 09:00
Macro Extension Tubes
Have just seen these posted on a K1 facebook page... Anyone seen them before.... Ive never seen AF Tubes.... Or TTL. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Kooka-KK-P56-Metal-Copper-AF-Auto-Focus-TTL-Extension-Tube-for-Pentax-K-1-K/32825328673.html
Posted by stub on 21/06/2018 - 19:08
Macro Extension Tubes
Have just seen these posted on a K1 facebook page... Anyone seen them before.... Ive never seen AF Tubes.... Or TTL. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Kooka-KK-P56-Metal-Copper-AF-Auto-Focus-TTL-Extension-Tube-for-Pentax-K-1-K/32825328673.html Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by richandfleur on 21/06/2018 - 20:32
Macro Extension Tubes
Have just seen these posted on a K1 facebook page... Anyone seen them before.... Ive never seen AF Tubes.... Or TTL. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Kooka-KK-P56-Metal-Copper-AF-Auto-Focus-TTL-Extension-Tube-for-Pentax-K-1-K/32825328673.html Interesting. Thanks for sharing. Some tubes are mark...
Posted by LennyBloke on 21/06/2018 - 20:57
Macro Extension Tubes
The ones depicted in the link do appear to show an auto focus screw drive pin though, unless my poor eyesight deceives me!:)
Posted by Defragged on 21/06/2018 - 22:42
Macro Extension Tubes
Have just seen these posted on a K1 facebook page... Anyone seen them before.... Ive never seen AF Tubes.... Or TTL. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Kooka-KK-P56-Metal-Copper-AF-Auto-Focus-TTL-Extension-Tube-for-Pentax-K-1-K/32825328673.html I use a 25mm Kooka af extension tube. It's a very ti...
Posted by walt on 21/06/2018 - 23:31
55-300 PLM
The very generous double discount offer from SRS this weekend is tempting me to purchase the PLM version of the 55-300mm lens. I already have the original green ring version and so I'm asking if there is anyone here who has had experience of both and who is willing to share their thoughts to help me...
Posted by Defragged on 23/06/2018 - 15:09
55-300 PLM
I've owned three variants, smc da, hd & plm. Although I do believe there's a marginal optical improvement as they progressed, it's not massive. The focus on the plm is a vast improvement and virtually silent, although occasionally it still does hunt, it's far less annoying. The girth on the plm is t...
Posted by rick on 23/06/2018 - 18:24
55-300 PLM
You don't see much interest in this lens from Pentaxians probably because it's FAST AND QUIET so seen as two less things to moan about which would be very sad:roll:. I almost bought it myself this morning, but SRS's site wouldn't work so I left it. Probably a good thing because I only have a K-1 ...
Posted by jeallen01 on 23/06/2018 - 21:36
55-300 PLM
I had the screw drive lens back on my K5. I had the 300mm star F4 and tele adapter and now a K3II and the 55 - 300mm PLM. The first used to hunt noisily, might have been the camera. The star lens was great BUT focused slowly and too heavy/bulky for my travels.The tele adapter made focus too cr...
Posted by wvbarnes on 24/06/2018 - 10:18
