Scott Loveless wrote: > On 12/29/06, W. Guy Finley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hello all! Found this list after intensely studying Stan's Pentax >>page trying to figure out what in the world I was doing with lenses >>for my new baby. >> >>I learned on my dad's K1000 (more later) and after a hiatus until >>early adulthood I got back into photography but went Canon with an >>EOS-3 and a Tokina 28-80/2.8 as my mainstay lens and a couple of >>primes. I went broke feeding film into that camera so when digital >>started hitting it big I grabbed a Canon G3 and ditched my EOS >>system. I then had a Sigma SD-9 and then a Sony DMC-V1 that I went >>to the extent of getting a Metz 50 MZ-5 system for. >> >>The Sony has long since been wanting to be retired so I started >>looking at another bridge camera. That's when I saw reviews for the >>new Pentax K digitals. I had thought about an ist-D a bit back but >>never made the leap. I went and found the trusty K1000 and sure >>enough the M 50/2 and Takumar 135/2.8 were still with it. Not the >>best lenses in the world but hey, a start. When I saw these would >>work with the new digitals I made the leap and went for K110D >>deciding I really didn't need shake reduction. > > > The M50/2, while not the best of the Pentax 50s, is certainly a good > lens. Common wisdom dictates that it's almost impossible to come > across a dog of a 50. I have that lens and an M50/1.7. The 50/1.7 is > slightly sharper and it does get mounted on the K100 from time to > time. I mostly shoot B&W film and actually prefer the contrast of the > 50/2 for that application. Of course, this is a matter of personal > taste. I've never mounted the 50/2 on a digital body so I really > can't comment on that. >
The M50/2 works really nicely on my K100D. I'm now using it only as a reversed macro as I ran across an A 50/2 and a A 50/1.7 over the last two weeks. The f2 is probably the better portrait lens of the two, the 1.7 is a little too sharp to be really flattering. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
