Someone tell me I don't need a SMC-K 50mm f1.2
..... but you buy it anyway.
Actually £300 is a bit steep for the "K" version.
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Hrm, really? I've only seen both the K and A going for obscene amounts on the bay. Where can one get one for cheaper then?
Maybe I am a bit behind the times then. i picked up a new A-50 1.2 for £325 about a year and a half ago. Also on ebay from a Japanese seller that had a batch of them.
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O-rly? Hrm, any chance you still have his contact?
Yes this is the chap [email protected]. You can do a search and see if he still sells on ebay.
I also must point out that the lens was priced in dollars, and in May 2008 when I bought it the exchange rate was about 1.9500 , making it cheaper in sterling.
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Andrew
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Pentax K10d, *istDL, Kit lens ( 18-55mm ), 50mm f1.7 lens, Tamron 70-300mm lens, Prinzflex 70-162 manual lens, Various old flashes.
I've already got a FA50 f1.4, and I find it too zoomed up!
A change in aperture won't change that
The only thing a f/1.2 does over a f/1.4 is that at f/1.2 the field where in everything is harp is smaller and that more light falls onto the sensor so you could faster shutter-speed and lower iso but there isn't so much in between f/1.2 and f/1.4 though.
If you want a more zoomed out kind of lens you need a wider focal length like around the 35mm.
That said, I'd love a K 50mm (either version). Nearly bought an M 50mm f1.4 for £55 a few days ago but "thought about it" for too long. Oh well, there'll be another one along eventually and my MX works just as well with the f1.7 version...
Shooting the Welsh Wilderness with K-m, KX, MX, ME Super and assorted lenses.
This is unfortunately the burden of FF lenses with cropped sensors.
A 400mm lens on cropped has a FOV of a 600mm lens yet still only has the 8x effective "closer" view.
The term compromise would come to mind.
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And burden, what burden?
An 400mm f/4 is certainly lighter then a 600mm f/4
So Whelmed if you find photography hard enough already and never used an 135 camera then forget what those two guys above me said about crop factor, just forget it since you don't need it then. It makes photography a lot simpler
I'd save the money towards a 35*Ltd macro
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Someone, tell me I don't need this (and by someone, I don't mean my wife)