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Last edited by monochrome; 05-02-2016 at 08:43 PM.

[C_Jones]

Nice shot.

[eyeball]

Great lighting! That lens is what I've been using for my normal on APS-C.

[debakarma]

So it seems the legacy lenses are no slouches even in this digital age. wonderful shot. please post some more.

[Roob-N-Boots]

Great shot! Thanks for posting, it's getting me more anxious to have the K-1 in my hand so I can test my stable of K and F series lenses.

[gavinhw]

Now we're talkin'! This is my kind of thread.

I've got at last count 14 Pentax manual focus lenses itching to be put to the test.

[Stagnant]

It is impossible to judge about the quality of the lens + camera combination based on this shot. First of all it is resized, secondly the flower is in the centre of frame and the rest is out of focus. The whole point of testing a full-frame vintage glass on the modern full frame camera is lost. Based on this sample I can say, that the OOF highlights are ugly and bokeh is so-so. On the other hand the colours looks great, but there is no info regarding processing or lack of it therefore.

[naldopr]

I have this lens but don't know how to use it on my k3 can you show me how? I m new to this

[monochrome]

I have this lens but don't know how to use it on my k3 can you show me how? I m new to this

Here's Adam's instructive article on how to use your lens on a Pentax dSLR. Here's an article on metering from the Forum Article #1 Metering Manual Lenses and another Article #2 Green Button. Be sure to enable aperture ring in settings.

[eyeball]

I have this lens but don't know how to use it on my k3 can you show me how? I m new to this

I've found that two other settings are useful for manual operation. One is the well-known catch-in-focus:

Catch-in-Focus Tutorial - Articles and Tips | PentaxForums.com

To summarize, when properly set up, you start with the lens slightly out-of-focus, press and hold the shutter release, and then turn the focus ring to focus. When catch-in-focus is set, the camera's shutter fires when the focus-detect system decides that focus at the center focus point has been achieved. This eliminates having to eyeball the focus setting, but relies instead on the auto-focus optics.

The second setting is to use catch-in-focus with continuous burst mode on. If you turn the focus ring slowly, you'll find that there is actually a narrow range of focus within which the camera will fire off shots, where the focus system thinks the subject is in focus, due to optical and electronic tolerances. With burst mode on, the camera will fire constantly when in this range, so the more slowly you turn the focus ring, the longer it will take to go through that range, and the more shots will be taken. Especially with hand-held shots, the quality of these bursts varies quite a bit. Some of this variation is due to the interaction between hand shake and vibration reduction, so sharpness varies on a shot-to-shot basis. But you also find that the focus varies progressively over slightly different features of the subject (e.g., from tip of nose to eyelashes, or from tip of a flower to its base). There's an element of a shotgun approach to all this, but some shots within the burst do come out better than others, and those cherry-picked are usually better than my single-shot attempts.

I don't have a K-3, but I suspect, like for other cameras, that you can only use the center focus point for this purpose.

[zantaphia]

K-1 ƒ/1.8 55.0 mm 1/200 ISO100



K-1 ƒ/2.8 55.0 mm 1/80 ISO100

[jcdoss]

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K-1 mII, K55f1.8

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K-1 mII, K55f1.8, Godox TT350

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Pentax K-1 mII Limited Silver and K55f1.8 at f8