thanks for the answer, Tim.

i see it as a decent enough price, but not enough of a bargain to go for it. i'd rather a voigtlander for a little extra money.

or perhaps i shoudn;t buy anything, which would be more sensible given my current line up.

very good point. i always wondered why the camera meters sometimes was all out of whack for some lenses.

oh, and thanks for the help womble!

coolio.

it's lba getting the better of me. i think i'll end up giving this a miss. a voigtlander 58/1.4 would be a much nicer prospect, and at a similar price. the 1/2 stop is something, but so it the aperture control, metering and that voigtlander rendering.

hi all,

so i can spot a 50/1.2, the k-version, for about 215 GBP. good price? seems like a good one to me, on the basis of the prices on e**y, but prices over there are often heavily inflated, so i don't know if it's a good deal in reality or not. any input as to the typical prices would be much appreciated!

thanks for the help Algi. as it turns out, i got this 35mm second hand, so i don't have the warranty and original receipt, which is annoying.

BUT, i do have a very competent camera repair man who is an ex-canon technician. he looked at the lens, found a small wobble in it, and concluded that there was a small looseness in the af system that was holding the lens a bit further from the film plane than it should be. it was incredible that he could find the problem just by wobbling the lens and not even needing to mount it on the camera. indeed, when i checked my 15/4 and 70/2.4, there was absolutely no wobble. he's going to fix it up for me for not much money and i'll have it back any day now.

i had a focusing screen from focusingscreen.com when i shot sony. the annoying thing was that the focussing screen was a bit too small, so the split prism wasn't always in the middle.

perhaps the k3 focusing screen is a better size, so seems people here have better luck with it.

just messed around with my 35mm da limited by itself yesterday, and it turns out that it can't focus to infinity. so it's a lens problem, not a tc problem. annoying. i never noticed before since i hadn't had the chance to use it much since getting it. i'll send it in to have pentax look at it.

wooo!

yeah, i keep the lens focussed on infinity, and the tc can't seem to reach it. very frustrating, but i suspect it might be because the lens is too short.

thanks for the quick reply!