Originally posted by Fenwoodian I'll never understand why more of the Pentax Forum members with the Pentax K1 camera have not ditched their old manual focus Pentax lenses and come over to modern Zeiss lenses?
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In some cases, it's simply cost - people cut their cloth according to their means.
In others, people get what they need and want from other lenses. They like the way they render, and that rendering may involve all the imperfections inherent in older designs which - for some - can add to an image.
"Better" is always a subjective assessment, and that certainly applies to lenses. I've had some of my favourite results from low-cost, beaten-up, low-end Soviet lenses.
I've absolutely no doubt that modern Zeiss lenses are fantastic, but they're just not what everyone wants, needs, or can afford... We're all different, right?