Here's a few shots of various wildlife in a Welsh country garden.




A slightly different light/angle:




































A bit more subdued:




All were taken on a K20D with Super Multi Coated Takumar 85mm/1.8, mostly round about f8 towards the near focus limit, all cropped to some extent, up to 100% in some cases I think.



C&C welcome.

How about a Pentax (or Samsung) 16-45 f4, I've seen these for about £130 upwards second hand. If you are fixed on £100 then you could always sell your kit lens (assuming you have a kit lens?) to make up the difference.

I was surprised at the difference between 18mm and 16mm, might not sound much but to me it is noticeable.

Update:

AF Adapter - SOLD
Samsung 35mm/2 - NO LONGER FOR SALE
Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 (m42 screwmount) - REDUCED TO £40 + £5 p&p
Ozeck 135mm f/2.8 - REDUCED TO £15 inc p&p
Chinon 200mm f/3.3 - REDUCED TO £30 inc p&p

At this stage I am looking to sell within the UK or EU. Thanks,

Richard

Maybe not a bargain but a fair price all round then. I will eventually get round to comparing it with an S-M-C Takumar 85mm/1.8 I already own and will end up selling one of them. The tak is very nice but I would like that bit of extra speed and the A functionality, I find it a bit annoying focussing wide open and then stopping down.

Having said that I'm keeping an eye on a couple of A* 85's that are on BIN for between £700 and £1100 just to monitor demand should I choose to keep the tak.

Kris,

You've made me worry I've overpaid now! I was hoping to pick it up for about £500 and then sell the body to get a little bit back but I decided with it being for a charity I would go a bit higher. I think I'll be selling on a couple of other things to pay for it though.

Richard (d00d0c)

The Samsing is no longer for sale, whilst producing test shots for a prospective buyer I've decided I actually quite like it. This may sound stupid but my initial disappointment was down to poor focus adjustment and after using the focus adjust on the K20D it is a totally different piece of kit. I'll certainly be making more of an effort to use it now.

Original post edited to clarify that front and rear caps for Samsung lens are non-original.

How about an M42 lens such as the SMC takumar 50/1.4 with an M42 adapter. I find the genuine pentax adapter available for £21.99 from SRS is good to use, quite easy to attach and remove etc.

You can then use any M42 lens in Av mode, albeit with some exposure compensation and with som tin foil trickery the focus confirmation/trap works also.

Here's a sample from the 35/2 wide open (shot as a JPEG with K20D on default settings, resaved in irfanview at 97% JPEG to reduce size to sensible one).




Sorry about the lack of imagination in composition, just a sample.