You are missing the FA20-35 and the newer DA20-40. And the 31 Limited. You might need to do some more shopping in order to give us a fair comparison. And IIRC there more than a few variations on the 28mm and 35mm lenses…
stan On Aug 31, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [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.
