What's your latest acquisition?
Is your S5 primarily for stills or video?
Best regards
I've never really done video but most of the reviews of this camera focus on it because it's the best there is in it's class, so having seen what it can do I imagine I'll have a play around with video too.
The video does look good.
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This is the lens now rebuilt with silky smooth action and apart from the odd minor scuff on the exterior paintwork it is now in perfect working order. It's been a long day today but well worth all the effort.

I'm sitting here at my desk amazed at the quality of the work you've done here, Defragged. It looks stunning, plus you've revitalised and revived a lovely piece of engineering. Outstanding.
Thank you very much Urbanmeister. There is certainly a measure of satisfaction to be had in acquiring and repairing vintage lenses and giving them a new lease of life as well as using them. In years to come, a great many manual vintage lenses will still be servicable and working as intended whilst many of their modern counterparts will only be fit for paperweights when their high end unsourceable electronic components fail as they surely will.
For anyone interested in seeing one of these old Sonnars being put through its paces, there's a lovely old gent based around Otley in Yorkshire who has a passion for vintage 35mm medium format and large format cameras and monochrome photography. He develops and prints his own work and is clearly a mine of information and skill in this regard who is well worth checking out by anyone with similar or budding interests.
His name is Martin Henson and there's a link here to a Youtube video he made which was dedicated to the use of a 180mm f2.8 Sonnar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IObbzqOZDJI
See also his other links.
Enjoy!

C.O.L.B.A.S victim
(Compulsive Obsessive Lens Buying Addiction Syndrome)
What you need are lenses, more lenses, bigger lenses, better lenses, faster lenses, and when you have these, your pictures will be perfect!
"A republic, madam, if you can keep it." - Benjamin Franklin
D FA* 70-200 f/2.8 (silver)
Nice - apparently only 500 produced

LennyBloke
Picked up a D-FA 70-210 f4.
It should arrive tomorrow.

Just passing thru
First piece of new kit (and post) in a while.
Picked up a D-FA 70-210 f4.
It should arrive tomorrow.

Super lens - and significantly lighter than the D-FA* 70-200 f2.8 - I think you'll enjoy it

LennyBloke
k5iis k200d
8mm fisheye sigma 15mm sigma 10-20 3,5 hsm
tamron 17-50 2.8 pentax 18-55 al ii sigma 18-125 hsm tokina 20-35 af tokina 28-70 atx pro ii pentax F 35-105 pentax A 50 1;1;7 pentax 55-300 sigma 70-200 apo ex 2.8
kenko pz af 1.5 tele tamron pz af 2.0 tele and a flash
Jonathan-Mac
Member
Madrid / Edinburgh
Is your S5 primarily for stills or video?
Best regards
I've never really done video but most of the reviews of this camera focus on it because it's the best there is in it's class, so having seen what it can do I imagine I'll have a play around with video too.
Pentax hybrid user - Digital K3 & K200D, film 645 and 35mm SLR and Pentax (&other) lenses adapted to Fuji X digital
Fan of DA limited and old manual lenses