Lens Shootout:: Pentax Prime Lenses 30-35mm
After lookibg,at this thread and some.of the excellent shots I have realised that 30-35mm is a gap in my growing arsenal of primes that I may have to remedy......
Seriously consider this lens. link
Best regards
Wow, read some tests and it seems to be a very impressive lens! It would be great to see a comparison between this and its Pentax equivalents.
After lookibg,at this thread and some.of the excellent shots I have realised that 30-35mm is a gap in my growing arsenal of primes that I may have to remedy......
Seriously consider this lens. link
Best regards
That certainly does look like a very good lens, a bit expensive though. Quite large too. I'm building up quite a collection of old primes, so the 30mm f2.8 looked interesting, though the price they are fetching means it doesn't quite fit the "Poor man's 31mm Ltd" moniker Dr Orloff gave it....one is on ebay now BIN for $600! A lot of money for K lens. 30mm does look like a very nice focal length though.
It does just feel the right general purpose focal length for me. I noticed they can command silly asking prices. Luckily for me the 31 would need to be seven times better than my poor man's 31 to justify the (with servicing) price difference.
This thread says a lot about the photographers and very little about the lenses used
Lenses: Pentax DA 10-17mm ED(IF) Fish Eye, Pentax DA 14mm f/2.8, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8, Pentax-A 28mm f/2.8, Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX DC, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.2, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-FA 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.7, Pentax DA* 50-135mm f/2.8, Sigma 135-400mm APO DG, and more ..
Flash: AF-540FGZ, Vivitar 283
Digital:
Pentax K5- Vivitar 19mm 3.8; FA35mm f2; D-Xenon 100mm macro f2.8; DA50-200mm WR...
Flash:
Yongnuo YN-560; Vivitar 285HV; Cactus V4 triggers...
Film:
Pentax-MX & M50mm f1.4; Spottie & 55mm f1.8; MG & M40mm 2.8...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/daveholmesphotos/
I've arranged to get the lens cleaned next week so I can explore its capabilities properly, although in the meantime I'll try some wide open work.
It does just feel the right general purpose focal length for me. I noticed they can command silly asking prices. Luckily for me the 31 would need to be seven times better than my poor man's 31 to justify the (with servicing) price difference.
I've been half-heartedly looking for one of these for some years but it does generally command a premium price. Unfortunately the gaps in my K series collection have shrunk to lenses I cannot afford like the K18, K30 or K200/2.5. Oh well... maybe I'll win the pools.
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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
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“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
Had the DA 35mm out last night on a walk and this was one of the results. I need to use this and my M28mm 3.5 and K35mm 3.5 more often too.
OOC RAW converted to jpeg nothing done to it. Taken with the K5
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Deffo my favourite lens... It'd take a FA31-Ltd to make me get rid...
Digital:
Pentax K5- Vivitar 19mm 3.8; FA35mm f2; D-Xenon 100mm macro f2.8; DA50-200mm WR...
Flash:
Yongnuo YN-560; Vivitar 285HV; Cactus V4 triggers...
Film:
Pentax-MX & M50mm f1.4; Spottie & 55mm f1.8; MG & M40mm 2.8...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/daveholmesphotos/