Congrats on the ennoblement, Mark. Did you get knighted? :) The F28 is nice and compact and highly rated by owners. I've had a couple over the years, but always flipped them because they brought such good money. I think the K28 f3.5 is the best 28mm of the bunch but, of course, not autofocus. I've got Tim Bray's old Sigma EX 30mm f1.4 for low light and shallow DOF (AF) and also picked up a K30 f2.8 if incredible sharpness is what I'm after (MF). In the screwmount, I think I have the old SMC Takumar 28mm f3.5 but it lacks an optical element found in the K28 f3.5.
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Mark C <[email protected]>: > >> I finally bought an autofocus 28mm lens - I've wanted a compact APS-C >> "normal" prime for some time and the SMC f 28 f2.8 seems to fit the bill. >> >> First tests indicate that the lens is very sharp at f28 and gets >> exceptionally good at f4 and 5.6. I did a few flare tests and it seems to do >> well in that respect as well. Looking forward to using this on the IR >> converted K-10d! > > > > > I picked up one of those quite a few years ago - it was attached to an SFXn > that I wanted as a back-up camera (I think). The SFXn didn't get a lot of > use (I still have it, though) and I haven't used the 28 in quite a while - > I've got lazy with the 16-45 and 18-135 both covering that focal length. > > > > -- > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > > -- > 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. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.
