Originally posted by Obin Robinson Those are some excellent photos with the old lenses you have there. I have been using my older Promaster and Sigma lenses with the K-1 and I am pleased with the results as well. Of course the newer lenses are probably quieter, sharper, and weatherproof but for a fraction of the price the old lenses cannot be dismissed.
obin
In my lens test for both 50mm and 35mm, some people prefer the look of the older glass, and the newer glass may be nominally sharper, but it can be real hard to prove that.
Horse #2 got 17% of the vote in this poll/ That's my 35-80. 18% of poll respondents favoured this image, as a reduced in size image. That would mean close to one in three Pentax users would prefer the 35-80 images to the DA 35, the next poll was different of course... but hey....
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/10-pentax-slr-lens-discussion/302815-35mm-find-prime.html
But out in the real world, it's often something other than MTF sharpness that make a lens loved. The fact that the new lenses may be better test chart performers doesn't mean they'll produce images you'll like better.
I suspect most people blow me off when I post stuff like this, but honestly, what's wrong with my 35-80? It feels so fragile I'm afraid it's going break with just normal (for me ) usage. Apart from that, I can get along just fine with it. I've got a 28-200 lined up for the K-1, just need to pick it up form the step-son's, and I'm really looking forward to comparing it with my 18-135 on APS-c.
Originally posted by rod_grant OOOOOH that hurts doesn't it!
I guess everyone has different opinions/criteria/etc - some seem to be very happy!
I'm quite happy with mine. Looking at the big picture, it was the next Pentax thing for me to buy.. But for the things I expected the K-3 to be better at, it is. And it's also been better un-expectedly in some cases. As in 400 ISO K-3 being less noisey than ISO 800 K-1 in this afternoon's side by side test. That was unexpected and still unexplained.