Re: russian 20mm lenses for pentax mount
The SMC Pentax A 24mm f2.8 can usually be had for about $200 on ebay if you're willing to bide your time. The Russians are supposed to be very good if you get a good copy but QC is very spotty. P R Figueiredo wrote: I was looking for an affordable manual focus wide angle (24mm or less) for pentax mount, and I found a couple of russian made lenses: mir 47k (2.5/20mm) and mir 20m (3.5/20mm). They're both available under 200 USD, new. Obviously I'm not expecting exceptional quality, but I own some russian glass that's not all that bad actually. Any first hand experience with these lenses? Thanks, Pedro -- You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. --Al Capone. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: russian 20mm lenses for pentax mount
Hi, I have tried both 20mm Mirs and do own Mir-20M. They're both quite good on film bodies and K100D, but a little weak (corner resolution issues) for K10D. Haven't tried my 20 with K20D. Mir-20 has two versions and at soviet (and post-soviet) times people used to say that older one (http://static1.nagi.ee/i/p/46/97/0225469754e645_m.jpg ) was better than newer one (http://www.rugift.com/images/mir_20m.jpg). Mir-47K is much newer design and was destignated for LOMO Almaz (semprofessional) K-bayonet bodies. Some say the optical quality is improved, others damn the build quality. The sample I tried wasn't any better than my Mir-20M. I do have Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 20mm f/4 (older, so called zebra-version, M42) in my collection, but I consider it much worse than Mir-20. BR, Margus (soviet-era photo-stuff collector) P R Figueiredo wrote: I was looking for an affordable manual focus wide angle (24mm or less) for pentax mount, and I found a couple of russian made lenses: mir 47k (2.5/20mm) and mir 20m (3.5/20mm). They're both available under 200 USD, new. Obviously I'm not expecting exceptional quality, but I own some russian glass that's not all that bad actually. Any first hand experience with these lenses? Thanks, Pedro -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
russian 20mm lenses for pentax mount
I was looking for an affordable manual focus wide angle (24mm or less) for pentax mount, and I found a couple of russian made lenses: mir 47k (2.5/20mm) and mir 20m (3.5/20mm). They're both available under 200 USD, new. Obviously I'm not expecting exceptional quality, but I own some russian glass that's not all that bad actually. Any first hand experience with these lenses? Thanks, Pedro -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: russian 20mm lenses for pentax mount
Nope, but why not try to get a 20mm Carl Zeiss Jena, which were also made for K-bayonet. They are excellent. Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Aug 5, 2008 20:27 P R Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking for an affordable manual focus wide angle (24mm or less) for pentax mount, and I found a couple of russian made lenses: mir 47k (2.5/20mm) and mir 20m (3.5/20mm). They're both available under 200 USD, new. Obviously I'm not expecting exceptional quality, but I own some russian glass that's not all that bad actually. Any first hand experience with these lenses? Thanks, Pedro -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: russian 20mm lenses for pentax mount
I bought a Sigma 18/3.5 from a list guy. It is manual focus but has A-type contacts. I use it on my 35mm bodies of course. It is quite nice, although slow. I think they can be bought not that expensively on Ebay. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille -- Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: russian 20mm lenses for pentax mount
Ditto the Tokina and Tamron 17/3.5's, although the Tamron requires an Adaptall-2 mount which can get pricey these days. -Adam On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Thibouille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a Sigma 18/3.5 from a list guy. It is manual focus but has A-type contacts. I use it on my 35mm bodies of course. It is quite nice, although slow. I think they can be bought not that expensively on Ebay. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille -- Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: russian 20mm lenses for pentax mount
P R Figueiredo escribió: I was looking for an affordable manual focus wide angle (24mm or less) for pentax mount, and I found a couple of russian made lenses: mir 47k (2.5/20mm) and mir 20m (3.5/20mm). They're both available under 200 USD, new. Obviously I'm not expecting exceptional quality, but I own some russian glass that's not all that bad actually. Any first hand experience with these lenses? I had the MIR MC 47K 20 mm. 2.5 some years ago. It is a metal made lens, in fact it is very heavy and bulky. It doesn't have a front thread for filters, though. You have to screw the filters at the back of the lens, the lens includes four of them. It is sharp, except wide open were it is good at the centre but soft at the corners. It is multicoated, and it is quite resistant to flare, although it isn't in the same league as SMC Pentax lenses. These lens has a hot colour rendition as it is usual in Russian lenses, at least the ones I have used. In the early examples of this lens, when you screw a filter it can interfere with the movement of the mirror in some film camera bodies, I have read that it doesn't happen in the recent batches of this lens. It doesn't interfere with the mirror in the DSLR bodies because being APS-C digital format bodies, their mirrors are smaller. I paid 100 USD for that lens when I bought it new in 2002. Carlos -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
