I have a 28mm Shift lens and I love it! Most of my photography is travel photography and I usually take slides, which I later project. Going via digital -correcting the tilt- and then making a slide from the corrected digital image would be much too cumbersome for me. In addition there would be a quality loss due to the many processing stages involved (slide- digitalising - manipulating in Photoshop - new slide).
While I used to do most of my travel photography with a Pentax A 28/2.8, A50/1,4 and Tamron 90/2.5, I now find that the 28mm Shift + the Pentax 77/1.8 are just the ideal combo. Before I often used the 50mm lens to go back and reduce tilting of vertical lines in architectural images. I no longer have to do this. With the 28 shift this problem can be avoided. A Pentaxian really interested in buying a 28mm Shift lens should also consider the Leica Shift lens. It is actually not a Leica lens, but made by Schneider Kreuznach. http://www.schneiderkreuznach.de/foto/an_su_pc/an_su_pc.htm The website is in German -> click on the button 'Prospekt' it will download you the pdf of the information sheet in English. Schneider sells this lens with mounts for all standard cameras (e.g. Pentax, C****, N***** etc.). Mounts can be changed if you should change system. It was tested much better better than the Pentax lens by the German Journal Fotomagazin. It is 1/2 a f-stop faster than the Pentax (2.8 vs 3.5). Despite this, it is lighter and more compact. In Germany it sells new for about the same price as the Pentax shift. Interestingly this is $300-400 less than the Leica version! Knut At 00:32 14.06.02 +0200, you wrote: >Hello everyone, > >I have the possibility to get a mint K 28/3.5 shift lens for app. US$ 550. >Is the lens worth spending that amount of money? Can anyone please share >their personal experience in regard to this lens? > >Thanks, Eric >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
