[theunartist]

M 28/2.8

Last one for awhile from this lens, I've been experimenting with B/W and this done on a Mac using Preview and playing around with white/black points, gamma, smidgeon of Sepia, etc...

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[Jonathan Mac]

Ribbons, taken with the 50/1.4 at 2.8 I think:

[Marc Sabatella]

Local trumpeter Bob Montgomery had a 75th birthday concert last night. Tons of musicians showed up for the jam session. I played a couple of tunes, but mostly took pictures. It was great having so many of us in one place. In addition to simply being fun, I managed to fill in a lot of holes in my photo collection.

First, the birthday boy. I already had several shots of him I liked, but this one is my new favorite:



Bob's right hand man:



Another elder statesman of the scene:



And another:



Of course, plenty musicians of my generation were present, too:





And the younger generation - many of whom have been students of Bob's:

[northcoastgreg]

While it´s fantastically sharp wide open, it suffers from the same as the f/2.8 version I got it to replace - it leaves images dull & lifeless & requiring PP to perk them up. None of my other lenses suffer from this, just the 28s. Does anyone else get the same from the Pentax 28s?

No, but the M 28/2.8 is (along with the M 50/2) the least contrasty, most "flat" lens of all my Pentax SMC glass. Not sure why those two lens don't exhibit the usual contrast and rich colors of Pentax lenses, but there it is.

[Marc Sabatella]

Taking advantage of the spring and the rendering of the M120/2.8:







This one with the aid of a Raynox 150:

[Schmidlapper]

Took my M100/2.8 for a walk around town recently and was very happy with its wide open sharpness as shown in this shot.

M100/2.8 @2.8

[theunartist]

M 28/2.8 (x-posted)


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[theunartist]

M 35/2.8


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[paulh]

*istD and M50 f/2:

[theunartist]

*istD and M50 f/2:

Sweet Bike!!! Great shot Paul...

[paulh]

Sweet Bike!!! Great shot Paul...

Thanks Rick - I wish I could say it was mine! I wanted to post a couple images from my cheap old M50 f/2 after reading an earlier post about that lens lacking in rich colors/contrast. I really like the images I get from my copy - these 2 shots had very little PP. Maybe I just lucked out & found a better than average copy. btw, keep those beer bottles coming!

Here's one more bike parked near the first one (same lens):

[theunartist]

Thanks Rick - I wish I could say it was mine! I wanted to post a couple images from my cheap old M50 f/2 after reading an earlier post about that lens not having rich colors/contrast. I really like the images I get from my copy - these 2 shots had very little PP. Maybe I just lucked out & found a better than average copy. btw, keep those beer bottles coming!

Here's one more bike parked near the first one (same lens):

Another nice one!

I just got in the mail today the A 50/2.0 and posted my 1st pic in the A club section. From what I can tell just from the very early photos, this lens gets no respect. It's better than OK, as far as I can tell has good contrast and color. It might and I mean just by a little be soft wide open but there aren't that many lenses that are super sharp wide open either and it sharpens up nicely in PP... I love it!!!

[Marc Sabatella]

Seems a little slow in here of late. Here's a couple more from the M120/2.8, and as a bonus, one from the M100/2.8, which I do still sometimes take with me to concerts in order to plug to gap between the 120 and the DA70/2.4.

M120/2.8:









M100/2.8:

[paulh]

Marc - love those musician shots.
Here's two from my M50/1.7 wide-open - no pp except resizing (xposted from bokeh)

[Regentag]

Seems a little slow in here of late.

I need to go in Concerts more often, nice Pictures Marc!

Here are some for the Club.

My Uncle trying to push the Dogs in the Direction of my Lens, no success

M85

Then he set the Dog on me

M85

They luv to wrestle

M85

She's a beauty

M85

And one from my M 75-150 + 13mm Extender