Over here it's dirt cheap, running around half the price of the Canon or Sony and a little more than that against the Nikon. The Pentax is around $200 while the Nikon is $360 or so and the Canon and Sony are $400+
-Adam On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:51 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What surprises me is the line: > "price of the lense (most expensive standard prime in its class, besides > Zeiss of course)" > > Are we talking about the Pentax SMC FA 50mm f1.4? That's the cheapest in > it's class (Nikon's being close). > FYI the prices (in GBP... source: Ebay.co.uk): > Canon 50mm f1.4 - ~165 pounds > Nikon 50mm f1.4 - ~135 pounds > Pentax 50mm f1.4 - ~130 pounds > Canon 50mm f1.8 - ~60 pounds > Nikon 50mm f1.8 - ~50 pounds > > The only thing Pentax is 'missing' is an 50mm f1.8 lens... but the price > of the f1.4/50mm is fairly low IMHO. And I had the Canon f1.8 50mm in my > hands... cheap and plastic. I really disliked that lens. A friend of mine > sold his because it was extremely soft at f1.8, yet I heard no real > complains about the FA f1.4/50mm. > > The two reason I am not considering to buy this lens is: my Porst > 55mm/f1.2 MF lens and my dream to get my hands on an FA 77mm f1.8 :D The > FA77's Bokeh... is a dreeeaaam :D > > .t > >> http://roman.blakout.net/?blog=20080516134346 >> ^^^ I'd lusted after this lense for over a year but something else >> always came in. Now, knowing K20D CMOS sensor reads diagonal light of FA >> lenses I'd decided to buy this 1.4 fast prime and here goes few samples, >> probably just emphasizing on its beautiful bokeh. FA 50mm is kinda soft >> full open, with few pixel wide soft cast but it's gone by f/2.0 and >> lense is sharpest at f/5.6 - 8.0. Light is very well controlled and >> level of aberrations is insignificant. Now I found my new favorite >> lense. Shame it took ages to finally find it. Perhaps expectancy of FF >> pentax body in December 2008 / January 2009 had contributed a bit to my >> decision to purchase full frame lense here. >> >> Your comments are welcome, as always. >> >> Roman. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
