SMC Pentax - M 28-50mm f3.5-4.5 Lens

Can any one recommend this lens or can offer any feed back.

Regards Ian

Nicely built, fairly compact, good optics when stopped down - but because it's a bit "slow" in the first place it means you often need to shoot at f5.6 to f8 as a starting point. Awkward range (for me) on APS-C, and I don't have a K1 to comment on the results on FF digital, but as they can often be had for well under £50 they are very good value lenses.

Just my view

Thanks Lenny might be useful for landscapes then.
regards Ian

Try a SMC M 35-70mm f2.8-f3.5

This is a seriously good lens and the focal length may be better for you

I got it for £28 a few years back with original case in mint condition.

It is a 'Bismarck' of a lens, check it out on the database but I was astounded by it.

A real 'collection of primes'

35 - 70mm: I couldn't agree more -- either a manual 'M' series or 'A' series one (but get the bigger, constant f4 version even though it's slower) or the F series auto focus. The whole lot of them are fantastic performers and they all come up on Ebay regularly. Also, if you see one, the 'A' zoom 35-105, "stack of primes" is just as good but it weighs a ton and has a huge 67mm filter ring, making a suitable hood hard to find.

I found the Chinon 35-70 f3.5-4.5 A series equivalent to be sharper than the Pentax (from a sample of one of each.)