Originally posted by NickLarsson Hi guys, so I took the plunge and bought myself the A7.
And now I feel bad because I want to sell all my Pentax kit to fund the Sony lenses, this sensor is just another league really!
Anyway, I did a small fashion shoot the other day with the FA43 and FA35/2 (Samsung version), I really like their rendering on a FF sensor (my copy of the FA 35 is tack sharp wide open!) but this is one of the cases where I would have preferred AF lenses.
FA 43 :
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FA 35/2 :
Welcome to the club
I'd really urge you to hold on to those lenses and give it some time.
Give the MF a go and as you get faster, it may suffice for a lot of fun.
For indoor studio portraits, perhaps those lenses with a stop down button (eg. Takumar series) or the native FE55 (just that lens) will do.
For my uses, I've come to my own conclusion that I don't want to jump anywhere.
The Pentax lenses are as good as any out there and often at a bit better/smaller sizes.
Of course YMMV.
I only keep a cheap Sigma 30/2.8 and FE55 as AF lenses in case I get lazy to do MF.
But so far, they have stayed in the drycab.
Originally posted by jcdoss I've got an M20, and I really like it too, but I haven't noticed any wild distortion so far that i felt like needs correcting. I read about it in all the reviews, but I guess my eye isn't astute enough to detect it. Do you think it's really that bad?
There is a rather strong mustache distortion.
Its more obvious if there is a horizon line in the scene.
I have found that the Sigma 20/1.8 profile in LR seems to do 'ok' for now until I find something else.
Perhaps, for your purposes, they just don't show up as obviously (a good thing.
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I'm sort of running overdrive with the M20/4 right now as I need a set of 7 picts to make it to a weekly challenge I do on my local forum.
(A picture a day / A picture a week )
So here's another one from the M20