Cotty wrote: > > My K50mm f/1.2 finally arrived after spending a week held up in the post > office while they had their little dispute and a million pieces of mail > built up waiting to be delivered... > > Wow. Nice and heavy - lots of glass, like looking into the ultimate > abyss. Looks fabulous, in very good condition cosmetically but plenty of > dust inside - I think I'll stump for a strip down and clean out - I > intend to keep this one.
Good on ya, Cotty! I've done that very thing on several of my older Pentax lenses, that would otherwise probably have taken excellent photographs - but somehow any less than perfect aspect to the lens just offended me, somehow! And, coming out of a CLA, I've always been very well pleased! A couple of days ago, I had a practically new late model SMC 50/1.4 Takumar CLA'd. When picking it up, a front-of-the-counter customer asked why I'd spend that kind of money on a 30 year old lens. Did he get an education! Of course, after I let him feel the heft and butter-smoothness of the rings, he sort of changed his mind. I almost had him ready to buy an older Pentax! <g> keith > Very impressive lens. The one incantation of the 50mm I don't have. Someday... > Cheers, > Cotty
