Pentax A 35-70 f4 smc

Good idea to return it. The focusing ring needs to be right.

There are plenty of them around and they go for a lot less than they are worth on ebay.

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Half Man... Half Pentax ... Half Cucumber

Pentax K-1 + K-5 and some other stuff

Algi

I know it's only a cheapo lens but I'm a VERY tight Scot so it has to be right

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Sean

It may be normal though, so if it takes good pictures why return it? If the price was low, it could be worth keeping.

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Best regards, John

When I look through the view finder to focus ,the wobble is quite pronounced and it just feels like end is going to fall off .

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Sean

That may be a little less than normal and a bit more worrying....

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Best regards, John

No. It shouldn't behave like that !

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Both the *istDS and the K5 are incurably addicted to old glass

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After having a wee think plus proof of how good/sharp this copy i have is ,i'm going to keep it,wobble as well lol .



Sample of how sharp this lens is ,even after a very heavy crop . Image is untouched apart from the crop .

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Sean

That looks good and on the K20D no sign of purple/green fringing (CA). I was trying the lens on my K-5 yesterday and it does suffer from CA on that body. Zoner has a CA correction tool which lets you select purple/green fringing with a dropper and remove it. It also lets you mask the area to change so that you don't change any other greens etc.

This is a crop of the corrected Wainright bottle which suffered from CA (at f/8 ). I took the same shot with the Pentax FA 50mm f/2.8 Macro and couldn't tell the difference apart from no CA.



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Half Man... Half Pentax ... Half Cucumber

Pentax K-1 + K-5 and some other stuff

Algi