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Comment by Benz3ne posted on Newish Pentax YouTube Channel at 26/02/2020 - 13:00
As for used bargains previously:
MX for £20 + P&P, not quite as good a deal as Womble's but happy with it.
ME Super job lot for £70 or thereabouts, including a few cases, Weston Master V, couple of Cokin filters, M50/1.7 lens which I've now cleared of fungus, 2x ME Supers, both appearing to work correctly now with new light seals and a PKA Kiron 28mm f/2.
Pentax K-50 and K-70 job lot. Included a number of lenses, both cameras etc. for under £300. Managed to sell everything for a bargain for their recipients but leaving me with a little profit so enabling me to get a K-1 not too long ago after using the K-70 for a few thousand shots.
SMC-M 135mm 3.5 for £15 posted, SMC-A 50mm f/1.7 for £20, SMC-A 28mm f/2.8 for £20. Daft me sold the 50/1.7 so I might look to procure another in due course.
SMC-M 50mm f/1.4 for £30 posted.
SMC-M 85mm f/2 for £50, had some 'haze' which I feared might've been lens separation, but on cleaning and reassembly actually appears not to be!
Plus the handful of bargains on great items from this generous forum.
Comment by Benz3ne posted on Used bargains at 26/02/2020 - 09:11
Comment by Benz3ne posted on Newish Pentax YouTube Channel at 25/02/2020 - 19:11
Comment by Benz3ne posted on FS: Pentax FA 77mm F1.8 Limited at 25/02/2020 - 15:02
Comment by Benz3ne posted on FS: DA* 35mm f2.8 Macro Ltd at 23/02/2020 - 16:43
Comment by Benz3ne posted on Window in a white wall. at 23/02/2020 - 09:44
Comment by Benz3ne posted on slightly damaged 150-450 mm HD D-FA F4.5-5.6ED DC AW Lens at 19/02/2020 - 10:13
I really don't know which old film lenses Stub bought which were "rubbish". All the K1 photos submitted here by me are 'old glass' and most have been well received. There is a reason, for example, why the SMC Pentax-FA 80-320mm is so expensive, despite its age - it can give a DA* a run for its money. Macro Taks are unbeatable and the Canikon brigade are always snapping up Pentax-K and M primes rather than buying their own brands. None of these are cheap but the £60-£80 you pay for them is a lot less than the £1.2K and upwards you seem to have to shell out for new ones.
That's a lovely picture with the 80-320. I'm tempted to pick one up just for the reach and autofocus on the K1.
Comment by Benz3ne posted on 'Upgrade to K-1' quandary... at 19/02/2020 - 08:29
Any ideas for chairs? I've been using an Ikea Markus for around half a year and it's been pretty good. I'm a sloucher though and I'm not sure I can fix that.
Comment by Benz3ne posted on Another pointless thread at 19/02/2020 - 08:12
"Like New" at £679
https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equipment/used-photo-and-video/used-lenses/pentax...
If I didn't have one I'd snap this up.
Best modern lens I own
Comment by Benz3ne posted on Used Pentax HD D FA 50mm f1.4 at 17/02/2020 - 19:59


Also, not that I'm an expert in the matter but do you have a script at all for these types of videos or not? Especially as the focus isn't on your face you could quite comfortably script something which might help minimise speaking errors - again, though, that's endearing for some that it's not overly clinical.
Hope this helps! I'll watch a few more now, enjoyed that DA-50 one... tempted to get one again now I've a K-1!