Dental Macro

Hi All

Can anyone give me some info on the Pentax SMC-A 100mm f4 Dental Macro lens.

Cheers Richard

Hi Richard, I'm assuming your watching out for this lens (trying to be a bit cryptic), here's a couple of quick hand held shots
taken with this lens and a K10D. PEF, ACR to 16bit jpg, no post processing except resizing, follow the link to my pbase
account and you will find the full size jpgs, I'll leave them there for a couple of days (approx 4MB each)

Both 1/60s f/16.0 at 100.0mm iso100






Send me a PM if you need more info.

The dental Macro lens was sold in a kit with ring flash, for dental photography. It's a 100mm macro lens just like any other. Unless someone can tell me differently I don't think there are any special features. Using a 100mm macro is the classic focal length for dental photography.

John is correct, I should have added some more words to my OP.
The SMC-A 100 f4 Dental Macro is indentical to the non dental version, it has extra magnification markings on the barrel for use with the dental close-up lens set, using this set gives you up to 1:1 magnification but you need an AF-140C flash to hold the close-up lenses, the lens on it's own gives 1:2 max magnification.

Hope this helps.

It helped enough for me to put in a bid on your lens Brian!

good luck John.

Glad to see you're keeping the old macro in good nick, Arthur!

G

If anyone else is interested, keep a watchful eye out as I've just finished writing the listing for my non-Dental version of this lens. I'll try not to make mine compete with yours Brian...

Will

Hi Will,

My auction has finished, got roughly what I was looking for (£120), unfortunately JR was pipped at the post.

However I have now aquired an D-FA 100 f2.8 macro and will shortely be listiing my extremely rare SMC-A 100 f2.8 Macro (cost me more than a new D-FA ) but I'll wait till your auction has finished.