I used the K30/2.8 as my Single in April lens. I posted a few pictures on here too. It is lovely and stunningly sharp when you nail the focus.

K.

Both. And another vote for the M100/2.8. K.

2I've certainly been considering the Samyang lens but it does not have very good reviews. Have you tried it?

Cheers, Kris.

What matters to Pentax is sales, and whether or not anyone actually needs a fast long telephoto or not is irrelevant. Sadly, photography attracts people who want bragging rights. When I went to the Duxford Airshow last year there was an amazing array of people with huge L-series lenses wearing them around their necks with a flashgun attached and firing off a dozen shots at high speed... of a static plane on the ground. I would guess that about one in ten of the monster-lens toting crowd actually knew their f-stop from their ISO despite having many thousands of pounds worth of gear dangling off their shoulders. Having extremely expensive low sales lenses provides aspiration and attracts people to a make. They may never buy that 800 f/5.6 lens, but it is there if they could... In a way it is a bit of a loss leader in that a specialty lens may never make a profit, but the numbers of people buying into the system because they can if they wanted makes it worth while. How many people have we seen leaving Pentax because they "have to go full frame"? And how many of those really did need full frame?

Back on topic, I'd love a TS lens, please. The venerable 28mm 'K' shift lens is good, but showing its age, and 28mm is not that wide on APS-C. (In fact I was once seriously thinking of buying another make of camera and their TS lens, whilst sticking to Pentax for everything else I do).

K.

Love the lilac image, very nice! I've never tried the A* or FA* versions but if you nail the focus is it surprisingly sharp, especially stopped down a little. But then, most of the time you want the lovely bokeh, so almost wide open it is...

Thank you whoever I bought this from. I think it was someone from here feeding my K-series addiction.

Best wishes, Kris.

I was right, it is Adrian's (DrOrloff) fault! Perhaps next months lens should be Lennybloke's K105...

The last image is my favourite. K.

Spring flower snapping madness is upon us. One more for the mix.



May 17th: Pretty in pink par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

K-3, K85/1.8 lens.

Best wishes, Kris.

Excellent series. I think the first is the strongest, although I love No. 8.

K.

If there isn't enough light to focus the camera might not let the shutter fire depending on your settings. Try putting it on manual focus and make sure focus-catching is turned off.

K.

I don't have that camera but I find the menu thing very curious. I have often heard Pentax moaned at for the menus, but have always found them straightforward and easy to use compared to other makes I have used. Very odd.

The cameras we use at work are all by the same manufacturer but all different models, and they don't even have the on-off switch in the same place! The three Pentax dSLRs I have had all have it in the same place, around the shutter button just under your index finger. Works for me! I have barely touched the K-3 manual because 95% of things work just the same as the K10 and K20.

K.