Recently I said that the list of lenses that I still wanted to get is shrinking rapidly. But one that I still wanted was the SMC K 30mm f2.8, a desire that Stan has fulfilled this week by putting one in the mail. I've wanted that lens particularly since seeing this stunning image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellinuxero/4547285529/
It is worth noting that this image was shot on film, so has the full 30mm FOV. Still, the cinematic look of the image - the combination of sharpness and buttery bokeh - that is what I love. There are many more delicious images produced with this lens at: http://www.flickriver.com/lenses/pentax/smcpk30mmf28/ I'm looking forward to comparing the lenses that I have in the 28-35mm range because I think I've got waaaay too many and I may need to thin the herd. In the autofocus department I cover that range with: DA 16-45mm f4 (middle of the range) Sigma EX 30mm f1.4 (prime) Pentax F 35-70mm (at its widest, obviously) In the manual focus department I've got: SMC K 28mm f3.5 SMC K 30mm f2.8 (coming from Stan) Flektogon 35mm f2.4 (preset... coincidentally, also from Stan) Tamron 01A 35-85mm f2.8-3.8 macro I'm always threatening to do comparison images and then never really getting around to doing a pseudo-scientific side-by-side comparison. It always seems to come down to gut feelings and how often the lens actually gets put on the camera. I'm getting closer to having my basement darkroom set up and so I may need to keep an eye on which lenses will also work on which film bodies (with no crop factor, obviously). But it appears that I have a silly amount of overlap at the 28-35mm range. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
