K series love

I bought a K2DMD "for spares or repair" then sent it to Eric Hendrickson to wave his magic wand over. Last week I was reunited with it when I was visiting a friend in Ohio. I took a quick snap on the table of my hotel room along with some K series lenses to keep the body company!



K series equipment par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

The lenses are (left to right): 17/4 Fisheye, 50/1.2, 28/3.5 shift, 50/1.4 (on the camera), 135/2.5, 85/1.8 and 30/2.8, all K-series, of course!

Best wishes, Kris.

i own the 30

it's not going anywhere!

Beautiful, I lust after the K50 f1.2!
I have the K85/f1.8 and its a lovely piece of glass, so compact yet well built, like a tank!

I was lucky to pick up the 1.2 attached to a fairly worthless body. The seller didn't realise what they had. It wasn't dirt cheap, but cheaper than it should have been. It is physically very close in size to the 85/1.8 but noticeably heavier!

Carrot... I rather like mine too.

K.

I was never able to get good results from the 50/1.2's that I owned it was only when I got my K5iiS that I started to get results from some lenses that I'd never really got on with before. It's cost me dear, because I've since bought an A50/1.2 (couldn't find a K anywhere at the time) and a K85/1.8 (clearly you're still liking my old K85 Hoops ).

I keep trying not to love Manual focus lenses, but it's really difficult

I love the K85, probably the lens I would grab if I could only take one in a fire

Its not perfect but there really are no other alternatives for a sharp, compact ~85mm lens, other than the later M85 f2.
Its also THE best built lens I have handled, thats even compared to the Voigtlander 58mm/90mm and Pentax FA Limited, FA* 85mm etc.
I really do not use it enough.

This (IIRC) was the K85 on film (even if the exif says 55mm from my preset K55)



Viv on Clevedon Pier by Robert Seymour, on Flickr

A lovely classic assemblage, Kris. Hope you had a good time in the States.