My main affliction is my addiction to K-series primes. I have almost cured that by buying the lot apart from the last two I haven't managed to source yet (the K100 macro and the K1000/. Apart from those, the only things on my wish list are a good standard zoom for the K-3iii (I have my eye on the new 16-50 but don't have the spare cash) and the 08 lens for the Q (rarer than unicorn droppings). I mainly spend what little spare cash I have these days on film/developing.

I got my 31mm half price from Amazon. Then it went back to full price again!

Some really lovely photos, especially the first. It might be my monitor (I'm using a laptop) but the saturation seems a little overdone for my taste. Others with calibrated screens will be able to comment.

July 03: Dear Goblin par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

K-3iii / K85f1.8

Thanks John.

Made me chuckle...

No 2 is very sad as the bear was sitting abandoned on the bench. I hope it's owner found it again.

Sold (at last).

Thanks all. Kris.

[This is a repost of my summary for the "Single in June" challenge for the US fora.]

This is the sixth month of using one of my K lenses. As I spent many years shooting slides with just a 28mm and a 50mm lens, I thought that using the 20mm on APS would feel familiar in terms of focal length. I guess 15 years of shooting a mixture of formats has hard-wired by brain into seeing 20mm as wiiiiide on APS-C. I ended-up with a few "panoramas by cropping" due to this I rather liked this lens once I got used to it. It does suffer from barrel distortion which wasn't too bad on APS-C but would probably be more noticeable on 35mm. A slight tweak in Lightroom usually helped, as did turning on the "remove chromatic aberration" feature. It does focus quite close which was helpful for late night safeties (no extension tubes this month) and the large depth of field at f/8 helped with quick focusing. The lens is much bigger than my M-series 20mm lens which is quite compact. Here are some of the images from the month.



June 2 shadow stairs par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



June 4: abandoned par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



June 11: Corvette par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



June 13: abstract par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



June 20: Oxbrugh Hall par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



June 21: Necton seflie par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



June 23: lion par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

I rather like no. 3 myself. Nicely done.