Originally posted by torontoem4o I own some cheap Pentax film-era lenses with so-so image quality. I also have the digital era Sigma 10-20 f3.5, and Tamron 28-75.
None of these come even close to comparing in image quality (at least in my view) to the series 1 vivitar 70-210, which is my favourite lens, and looks amazing for video too (I use my camera for "indie filmmaking" just as often as for photography).
Are there any comparable but wider older lenses? I need something much wider than 70mm. I am shopping around for a Super Takumar 50mm f1.4 so I should have that soon, but I want something even wider in addition to it. Any recommendations?
Thanks!
As you don't like the tamron 28-75 that is viewed by many as an excelent lens, I understand that your level of exigence is very high. This mean that no old wide angle lens will fit you. The technology was not available. Period.
This also means, you'll need a modern lens, and likely a quite expensive one because you have high expectations. Prime will perform best of course, but you may need several lenses then.
A a list of good modern wide angle lens in K-mount:
- DA15, DA21, DA12-24, DA20-40 for pentax.
- DA16-50 is not perfect, but is still nice.
- Samyang primes...
- sigma 8-16, sigma 18-35 for sigma.
If you look for something not so wide, there are excelent primes like FA31, FA35, DA35 ltd, DA35 f/2.4, DA40, FA43... Old lense can compare in this range of focal length... But this not wide at all. More like normal focal length range.