Bulent, Pentax has had a reputation for making a fine 50mm f1.4 lens - starting in the screwmount era. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 5:55 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > The optical formulas of those lenses are pretty close to identical. I'm not > surprised that you have a hard time telling the images from them apart. > > > On 12/3/2011 4:20 PM, Bulent Celasun wrote: >> >> I admit I have probably failed at my attempts to compare these two >> lenses properly: >> SMC Takumar 50mm f/1.4 and >> FA 50mm f/1.4. >> >> The only thing I can see repeatably (!) is the difference in rendering >> of colors; my radioactive Takumar shows everything a bit yellowish. >> Other than this, their contrast and resolution seems just the same. I >> also fail to observe a difference in their rendering of out of focus >> highlights. >> >> The FA allows autofocus and that may be an advantage under certain >> "time critical" conditions, perhaps. >> The Takumar "feels" great but don't ask me how I judged it! >> >> Anyhow, I am not thinking of parting with any of them. >> >> My curiosity is only for the sake of curiosity: >> Do you "see" a noticeable difference in images shot with either of >> these, if you look carefully? >> >> >> Bulent >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ >> http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun >> > > > -- > Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid > a lengthily search. > > > > -- > 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.
