I had a chance to buy a SMC-F 135mm 2:8 off of eBay and took a chance (BIN $99 + shipping). I am usually a "zoom" guy, but I am slowly building my prime lens options. I find the F135 is a pretty sharp performer but the contrast is a little flat.. It is nothing that cannot be punched up in post processing. The lens if fairly well built and handles very nicely on the K10D. AF is not especially speedy and I find that it hunts more that I would have thought. The focal length is a little longish, but I tend to favor my longer zooms for what I shoot. Overall I think I got a good deal.
Here are some test shots from in and around the house. There is no great art here, I was just shooting at objects trying to get a feel for the lens. There are the obligatory cat photos for you feline fans: http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry/smc-f135/content/index.html Taken with the K10D, RAW (DNG) + JPG, minimal processing in Lightroom. Any and all comments appreciated. I was also using this test as an opportunity to learn Lightroom's web page creation. There are some nice thing about it but there are also some limitations. The opened image size is restricted by the matrix size defined by the gallery. The image size will always be restricted within the "light gray" area of the gallery. You can force the image to show larger only if you define the gallery size larger (i.e. 5x4). If this is larger than the number photos in the gallery (like mine) it looks funny. Hope they fixed this in the released version. -- <----------------------------------------------------> Perry Pellechia Primary email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry <----------------------------------------------------> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
