In case anyone is interested, and wants to join the dawg lens support group, I have a very nice example for sale - in KEH LN condition with the original metal & plastic caps, metal hood, lens & hood cases, straps & box - as close to new as you'll find. I'll throw in a bayonet adapter if you need one.
Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:04 PM Subject: dawg lens support group > > From: Andre Langevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >Hi - I'm Bill and I have made scads of beautiful (and even > > > well-selling!) images using my lowly 20mm f4.5 "Bow-Wow Takumar" > > How can this be? > > >Bill > > > > Because the lens has good contrast and your eye good vision. > > > > Andre > > Bill, I don't get it either. Nobody wanted to buy any of those perfectly > exposed pictures of brick walls I took on fine-grained film with my 20/4.5, > probably because they were turned off by the "double form of distortion > and loss of sharpness in the corners of the image". <vbg!> > > But seriously... > > While the test target shots from this lens show that it has some genuine > problems at wider apertures, I've put a certain amount of mileage on mine > and have not been disappointed in the way I've been disappointed by, say, > my 14/3.5 Sigma or 70-210/4 AF Nikkor (which are simply "not sharp" wide > open). > My major gripe about the 20/4.5 in actual use is that it is damned hard to > focus in poor light, at least on a Spotmatic. Also, every 20mm nikkor > I've tested is better, which leads me to hope that more recent Pentax 20mm > lenses are also better. > > While I'd like to find a "better" and yet still affordable 20mm Pentax > lens to take on vacation, it looks like the 20/4.5 SMC-T and a > screw-bayonet adapter are going to England next year because my get-a-20 > drive has been interrupted by a sudden unexpected need for new tie rods > and alignment. > > OTOH, I'd join the support group. I've got guilt over ignoring my M50/2 > for years in preference to the A50/1.2 which I don't recall EVER shooting > wide open (good thing, too, from what I hear). > > DJE > >
