It must be nice to not have financial constraints On May 25, 2026 6:42:20 PM PDT, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >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. >
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