In other words, "whatever you like most" is cool. And you want to put that on a scale of "coolness per dollar" ... I've always felt that the obsession with the cost of things is one of the dumbest points of foolishness when selecting or rating equipment.
I can't participate in this "personal, subjective coolness per dollar" rating game. The lenses I have now ... some of them acquired quite inexpensively, others fairly high priced ... are all superb performers and I've chosen to keep them over many others that I have owned and used. One of these keepers does happen to be a Pentax lens ... the SMC-Pentax-L 43mm f/1.9 Special in Leica Thread Mount. It was not particularly inexpensive; they made ~2200 of them total, about half in black and half in silver-chrome finish. It is optically identical to the FA-Pentax-L 43mm f/1.9 Limited sold in Pentax K-mount, which was the one lens of my Pentax gear many years back that almost had me retain one Pentax SLR body so I could continue shooting with it. G > On May 24, 2026, at 5:38 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > That depends on the photographer. Someone who does Astro landscape would have > a different definition than a bird photographer. > > That is also a different question than what makes a selection of lenses cool. > > So for you, what mount has the coolest selection of lenses? > > On May 24, 2026 4:54:04 PM PDT, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> > wrote: >> What makes a lens "cool"? >> >> G >> — >> "No matter where you go, there you are." >> >>> On May 24, 2026, at 4:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> In at a tango festival this weekend and the photographer is shooting Sony. >>> He has a couple of lenses that I covet. One is a 135/1.8 also a 50-150/2. >>> >>> This brings up a couple of questions. Which mount has the coolest lenses >>> available? But, then, for what sort of photography? >>> >>> I think that with potential we might still have an advantage in coolness >>> per dollar. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
