re: Pentax 50 f:1.2
Posted 15/02/2010 - 16:21
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Awwww. Don't show me that Yves... it does the LBA absolutely no good at all
Interesting though!
Matt
Interesting though!
Matt
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Posted 15/02/2010 - 16:57
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I'm just trying to visualise the depth of field, the bokeh... No, it's no good: I just can't.
Andrew
(Actually I'll just console myself with the fact that it's probably unusable wide open.)
Andrew
(Actually I'll just console myself with the fact that it's probably unusable wide open.)
Best wishes,
Andrew
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Andrew
"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Hass
My website: http://www.ephotozine.com/user/bwlchmawr-199050
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Posted 15/02/2010 - 17:27
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Has a reputation for being fairly soft wide open but not unusable. DOF is rather narrow. I had the (optically identical) K version (unfortunately with fungus) some years ago and you had to be very careful with focus. Fun though
Tony Milner
Super A, ME Super, MZ6, K5II, Ricoh GR & lenses from 8-500mm
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Super A, ME Super, MZ6, K5II, Ricoh GR & lenses from 8-500mm
www.amilner.org
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Posted 15/02/2010 - 18:24
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MattMatic wrote:
Awwww. Don't show me that Yves... it does the LBA absolutely no good at all
Interesting though!
Matt
I hope it won't give you ulcers!
Awwww. Don't show me that Yves... it does the LBA absolutely no good at all
Interesting though!
Matt
Yves (another one of those crazy Canucks)
Posted 15/02/2010 - 20:04
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Kris Lockyear
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.
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.
Posted 15/02/2010 - 21:18
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Outstanding image, Kris.
Might have known you owned one of my most coveted lenses. (I've lost even more sympathy with you now!)
Had a great afternoon on the Somerset Levels yesterday...sun even shone!
Best wishes,
A.
Might have known you owned one of my most coveted lenses. (I've lost even more sympathy with you now!)
Had a great afternoon on the Somerset Levels yesterday...sun even shone!
Best wishes,
A.
Best wishes,
Andrew
"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Hass
My website: http://www.ephotozine.com/user/bwlchmawr-199050
http://s927.photobucket.com/home/ADC3440/index
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78898196@N05
Andrew
"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Hass
My website: http://www.ephotozine.com/user/bwlchmawr-199050
http://s927.photobucket.com/home/ADC3440/index
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78898196@N05
Posted 15/02/2010 - 22:32
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bwichmawr wrote:
Outstanding image, Kris.
Might have known you owned one of my most coveted lenses. (I've lost even more sympathy with you now!)
Had a great afternoon on the Somerset Levels yesterday...sun even shone!
Best wishes,
A.
Might I ask whereabouts on the levels?
Outstanding image, Kris.
Might have known you owned one of my most coveted lenses. (I've lost even more sympathy with you now!)
Had a great afternoon on the Somerset Levels yesterday...sun even shone!
Best wishes,
A.
Regards
David
Retired at last - now all that time for photography - you would think: wink:
David
Retired at last - now all that time for photography - you would think: wink:
Posted 15/02/2010 - 22:46
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I think I saw an A 50mm f1.2 approaching £200 recently, I'd be amazed if anyone got the K series for much less.
In both series they would have been a rare lens. The K 50mm f1.4 would have been the standard 50mm in that series, in the A series the f2/1.7/1.4 would have sold in far greater numbers.
In both series they would have been a rare lens. The K 50mm f1.4 would have been the standard 50mm in that series, in the A series the f2/1.7/1.4 would have sold in far greater numbers.
Matt
Shooting the Welsh Wilderness with K-m, KX, MX, ME Super and assorted lenses.
Shooting the Welsh Wilderness with K-m, KX, MX, ME Super and assorted lenses.
Posted 15/02/2010 - 23:10
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Dangermouse wrote:
I think I saw an A 50mm f1.2 approaching £200 recently, I'd be amazed if anyone got the K series for much less.
In both series they would have been a rare lens. The K 50mm f1.4 would have been the standard 50mm in that series, in the A series the f2/1.7/1.4 would have sold in far greater numbers.
wow,I think I saw an A 50mm f1.2 approaching £200 recently, I'd be amazed if anyone got the K series for much less.
In both series they would have been a rare lens. The K 50mm f1.4 would have been the standard 50mm in that series, in the A series the f2/1.7/1.4 would have sold in far greater numbers.
I thought they were more!
If I'd find one for that price, I'd probably buy it straight away...
anybody selling ???
Posted 16/02/2010 - 01:16
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A year ago the K series averaged about £170 and the A series about £230. Given the current price rises on second hand lenses I would expect you could add £40 or £50 to that now.
I got mine from ebay attached to the front of an ME, or was it an MG? The seller didn't know the lens was anything special but several people bid on it. The seller probably has an inflated idea now of how much his camera was worth! I had intended to sell it on for a small profit but it is such a lovely hunk of glass (and I mean a hunk, weighs a ton for a nifty fifty) I cannot bare to part with it.
There was a thread about these lenses a little while back where there was some disagreement as to whether wide open they were "painterly" or merely soft! Either way, by f/2 it is pretty sharp.
K.
I got mine from ebay attached to the front of an ME, or was it an MG? The seller didn't know the lens was anything special but several people bid on it. The seller probably has an inflated idea now of how much his camera was worth! I had intended to sell it on for a small profit but it is such a lovely hunk of glass (and I mean a hunk, weighs a ton for a nifty fifty) I cannot bare to part with it.
There was a thread about these lenses a little while back where there was some disagreement as to whether wide open they were "painterly" or merely soft! Either way, by f/2 it is pretty sharp.
K.
Kris Lockyear
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.
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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