Agreed, Bruce. This lens is amazing. I too was reminded of this when I went through my Lightroom library to determine when I purchased the lens. Using the metadata, I filtered for lens type and pulled up all shots taken with the 50-135. Many I had forgotten about, but was pleased by what I saw. Years ago I had taken a series of portraits of my best friend and was reminded of its stunning quality. Most of my shots with this lens were taken on the K10D and K20D, though lots of shots were made last summer in England with the K5--I can still remember the wind up at Hadrian's Wall.
So it's time to put it on the K-5 and make some pictures. Can't wait till I get it back! Cheers, Christine On Jul 20, 2013, at 8:51 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Bulent, my 50-135 had its motor replaced just within the 2-year > warranty (by 3 weeks!). But after the replacement warranty ended the > motor died again. So it sat ... > > But I've been shooting with it again, purely manual focus, and it's > clear to me I had forgotten just what a great optic it is. It's a > simply outstanding portrait lens. > > So I plan to haul it down to Pentax once again ... > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Bulent Celasun > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Christine, >> >> My DA* 50-135mm had a faulty motor (the poorly >> designed/produced-implemented one). >> It was replaced; a few months after the warranty period; paid. >> Then, the poor lens (metaphorically, I mean!) hit the concrete and the >> motor died again at that moment. >> The guy at our Pentax service told me that they were happy with the "new" >> motor. >> Apparently none of them failed (in contrast to the "originals"). >> And, you are right in expecting; they had the motor(s) in their stock. >> My lens still sits somewhere home to be repaired; I have no idea about >> its whereabouts :( >> >> Hope yours serves you well from now on... >> >> Bulent >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> http://patoloji.gen.tr >> http://celasun.wordpress.com/ >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ >> http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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.
