Re: A 15mm (ASP and non-ASP)

2004-05-21 Thread Andre Langevin
My 15mm does feature the 4 feet mark and the front lens diameter is 69 mm (measured with a caliper). It's a K SMC PENTAX 1:3.5/15, sn 5068171. Fabio Fabio, is it possible to get a more precise measure? 68,6 and 69,8 seems to pertain to the two different types and your 69mm measure lies about

A 15mm (ASP and non-ASP)

2004-05-20 Thread Andre Langevin
As we are talking about the 15mm, and some Takumar and (few) K lenses (not A) have an aspherical element, the japanese Pentax Lenses Study Group seems to give a way to distinguish the aspherical lens fron the non-asp. The feet indication on the ASP would be 7, 4, 2, 1.5 The feet indication on

Re: A 15mm (ASP and non-ASP)

2004-05-20 Thread Mark Roberts
Andre Langevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As we are talking about the 15mm, and some Takumar and (few) K lenses (not A) have an aspherical element, the japanese Pentax Lenses Study Group seems to give a way to distinguish the aspherical lens fron the non-asp.

Re: A 15mm (ASP and non-ASP)

2004-05-20 Thread Dario Bonazza
Andre Langevin wrote: As we are talking about the 15mm, and some Takumar and (few) K lenses (not A) have an aspherical element, the japanese Pentax Lenses Study Group seems to give a way to distinguish the aspherical lens fron the non-asp. The feet indication on the ASP would be 7, 4, 2,

Re: A 15mm (ASP and non-ASP)

2004-05-20 Thread Andre Langevin
http://www.ucatv.ne.jp/~tweety/Report/Comparison15mm/Comparison15mm.htm Notice that both shots were taken with the lens wide open! (Obviously because the exposure time was so long.) There's definitely a difference, but they both seem like damn fine lenses. Mark Roberts Indeed. I had the same

Re: A 15mm (ASP and non-ASP)

2004-05-20 Thread Dario Bonazza
This message was apparently lost, so I'm posting it again. Andre Langevin wrote: As we are talking about the 15mm, and some Takumar and (few) K lenses (not A) have an aspherical element, the japanese Pentax Lenses Study Group seems to give a way to distinguish the aspherical lens fron the

Re: A 15mm (ASP and non-ASP)

2004-05-20 Thread Andre Langevin
Dario wrote: Interesting to me, Andre. You were sure such a topic will have raised my ears, weren't you? I was checking your ears and as predicted... But don't you already know this group? You can also notice different name lettering on lenses. smc (lower case) followed by wider PENTAX is