[paulh]

F80-200 again:

[lukulele]

Residual effect of storms passing through to the Piedmont yesterday taken from MP 219 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. First image is Fisher Peak at the NC/VA border, the second appears to be about 12 to 15 miles down Interstate 77. This was originally a perfect arc as I was coming up the ridge but faded in the center as the clouds headed east. K-5, F 28/2.8

[lukulele]

New acquisition F24-50 from the hidden Pentax classics downstairs at the Camera Store in Traverse City, Michigan last week. This lens is as heavy as an A and a Sensei 58mm lens shade seems to work ok on 24mm. Our entire county is in full speed baling and storing.

[lukulele]

K-3/F24-50 Storms and Deer.

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[paulh]

Nice shooting, lukulele!

Our shih-poo Jeannie blazing another trail at sunset. F35-70 on K10D:

[lukulele]

Thanks Paul,
The F24-50 is making a great impression in its handling so far.

[royden]

A few with F35-70/3.5-4.5.recently acquired. It is my second copy. I dropped the previous one. The first pic is at the macro setting at 70mm. Did some PP, cropping and resizing.

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[pentaxpete]

I have been given a Pentax SF-7 body by a kind Gent on The Pentax Forum UK just for £4-40 Postage so i have been trying it out with some 02/2006 outdated 'Lloyds Pharmacy 200ASA ( Agfa)' film I found in my stash and processed it myself in C41 . The old film scanned with a huge 'Blue' cast but I corrected it in the free FastStone Image Viewer as I would in the Darkrorom doing RA4 prints, with enlarger filters. I used my 2 'F' lenses for these.
SMC Pentax-F 35-80mm f4-5.6 at f5.6 and 'AV' exposure mode

SMC Pentax-F 35-80mm f4-5.6 at f8 on 'AV' Exposure mode

SMC Pentax-F 100-300mm f4.5-5.6 at full aperture on 'AV' Exposure mode

SMC Pentax-F 100-300mm f4.5-5.6 at Full Aperture on 'AV' Exposure mode

[lukulele]

A few from today's walk along the New River Trail State Park. F24-50, K-3. Abandoned 57 mile Norfolk & Western Railroad branch from Pulaski to Galax, Virginia which has become a cycling, trekking, and horse trail favorite.

[paulh]

I just returned from an "eclipse party" at nearby Southlake Town Square. Here's a few shots - K5 with F35-80:


This crude shot was taken by holding a pair of eclipse glasses over my lens


Science class at the party:


eclipse watchers from the city hall steps:

[goatsNdonkey]

My new manual focus Pentax zoom is a 16 dollar (incl shipping) "For Parts/Not Working" F 35-105. The auto focus works a little, but is kind of hinky. Whatever is broken or wearing out in the autofocus system, it doesn't prevent the lens from working seemingly perfectly manually. I put it on my K10D, right out of the package, just after I picked it up at the PO. These first shots are all direct out-of-the-camera jpegs with the contrast, sharpness, and saturation settings flat. ISO is 100. Aperture set on A. P exposure mode. It went from partly sunny to just starting to sprinkle rain while I was shooting, so the apertures ranged wider generally as I took my first test shots, from which these are selected:

[goatsNdonkey]

I've taken upwards of 50 exposures with my cheapo-used-sold-as-broken-parts-lens SMC Pentax-F f4-5.6 35-105mm, and it still seems to work just fine zooming, focusing, & using the "macro" feature manually. I'll keep my fingers crossed that not attempting to use its failing auto-focus system will keep it from totally wearing out or breaking anything that using it manually depends on. Sometimes it doesn't communicate its f-stop in a way that lets it display in my K10D, but in some of the camera modes it does. When it doesn't, it doesn't seem to throw off exposures.

I've been posting some of the pics from it in other threads, most of them at medium to wide apertures. Here are a few from a mostly small aperture excursion with the lens:




This is at f16. I really should have guessed that the hyperfocal point would have been closer to me than where I focused, but the eye really isn't drawn to notice that the nearest part of the rails are a bit blurry.




f22. Since there is hardly any wide-angledness in the lens's 35mm focal length when used on cropped sensor, it is a little surprising at first to find some bending of lines when one is as close to a building as one can get to frame it. This sort of distortion is much less, if one backs up and lowers the shooting angle and/or uses a slightly longer focal length. I can't get over the great color the lens has with the k10D.




f22.


All of these shots began as OOC jpegs with camera setting for Sharpness, Saturation, Contrast zeroed. Then I did a little post processing mainly to fine-tune exposure and highlight brightness. Some of that affects contrast. I didn't touch Sharpness or Saturation in PP.

[paulh]

F35-80 on K5:

[paulh]

View of a walking bridge through the crepe myrtles...F35-80:

[royden]

Awesome shots guys and dolls(if any) with F lens. As jsherman said in his opening post, the F line provide some of the best bang for little money. I would like to get a 24-50, 35-135 and a 70-210.