Sold pending payment.

Regards Steve

OK final bump

Back up for sale due to non paying off forum buyer.

Price £45 including postage within the UK.

Payment by Bank Transfer or PayPal (buyer pays fees) or Cheque.

Regards - Steve

This lens has now been sold to Ken

Regards Steve.

Another Bump for a fine MF lens

Bump

I noticed the guy looking through the window to the left of the main entrance (as viewed) was carrying a Pentax camera. Unfortunately he went inside the house before I had the chance to introduce myself.

Anyone recognise him from this shot?







Maybe we could start a thread with shots of Pentaxians spotted in the wild?

Regards - Steve

I have for sale this quite highly regarded 28mm F2.8 MF lens, which I would describe as being in good used condition. It is fully functioning, with some dust and paint loss as you would expect for a lens dating back to the mid 80's. The lens is supplied with generic caps.

This version was manufactured by Komine. It is has a metal body, smooth focus and clicky aperture ring, very similar in feel to the Pentax 'M' series. It is PKA fit, no 'Ricoh pin or extended flange' to worry about and mounts fine on my K10 and K5

This close focus version focusses down to 0.23m (approx 9 inches, macro ratio 1:5)








The price is £35 delivered by Royal Mail Signed For Service (including insurance ) within the UK. Payment by Bank transfer or PayPal (buyer pays fees) or personal cheque.

I am happy to post overseas subject to agreement on shipping costs.

Please PM with questions and interest.

Regards - Steve

I imported the DNG into CameraRaw and agree with Chris that there is no obvious sign of banding, however if you take the exposure down (-1) banding is clearly visible.

To me the image looks underexposed, so could it be a combination of underexposure and the lossy compression of the preview?

Regards - Steve

I purchased an MX-1 for my wife and so really likes it. She was not sure that she needed a new camera but the image quality of the MX-1 is so far ahead of her previous compact, which was three years old.

From my limited experience, I think the lens is outstanding and as Matt says the 1cm Macro mode is very good.

My only gripe is the processing speed. I guess I have been spoilt with the latitude that shooting RAW on a K5 provides. The MX-1 is quite slow, when it comes to saving RAW files. For that reason the camera is set-up for best quality JPG and personally I struggle to get exposure and composition right without the aid of a good viewfinder.

Regards - Steve