Hi, I have tried both 20mm Mirs and do own Mir-20M. They're both quite good on film bodies and K100D, but a little weak (corner resolution issues) for K10D. Haven't tried my "20" with K20D. Mir-20 has two versions and at soviet (and post-soviet) times people used to say that older one (http://static1.nagi.ee/i/p/46/97/0225469754e645_m.jpg ) was better than newer one (http://www.rugift.com/images/mir_20m.jpg). Mir-47K is much newer design and was destignated for LOMO Almaz (semprofessional) K-bayonet bodies. Some say the optical quality is improved, others damn the build quality. The sample I tried wasn't any better than my Mir-20M. I do have Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 20mm f/4 (older, so called zebra-version, M42) in my collection, but I consider it much worse than Mir-20.
BR, Margus (soviet-era photo-stuff collector) P R Figueiredo wrote: > I was looking for an affordable manual focus wide angle (24mm or less) > for pentax mount, and I found a couple of russian made lenses: mir 47k > (2.5/20mm) and mir 20m (3.5/20mm). They're both available under 200 USD, > new. Obviously I'm not expecting exceptional quality, but I own some > russian glass that's not all that bad actually. Any first hand > experience with these lenses? > > Thanks, > Pedro > > -- 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.
