[juristkostya]

*60-250
@F/4

[steamloco76]

Sunday wandering with my K5iis and DA* 60-250/4
The white crowned sparrow is the DA*60/250 with HD DA 1.4XWR converter.

[juristkostya]

*60-250

[zzeitg]

DA*55

[steamloco76]

Trains have been coming around this curve on the former Pennsylvania Railroad mainline at Torrance, PA since 1856. Norfolk Southern Railroad now owns the line and runs 30-50 trains per day.
50-135/2.8 on K5iis

[acoufap]

Some images taken with K-1 and DA*11-18 in FF mode ...


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[zzeitg]

DA*55

[zzeitg]

Some images taken with K-1 and DA*11-18 in FF mode ...

Very nice. Seems like the new DA* lens is close to perfection.

[juristkostya]

[CENTER]
Some images taken with K-1 and DA*11-18 in FF mode ...

Cropped?

[Rondec]

Cropped?

I think it is useable on full frame from about 15mm on?

[acoufap]

Very nice. Seems like the new DA* lens is close to perfection.

It does many things great. But as every lens it also shows at least one weakness.

This you can see when having very strong direct light within the frame like that of the sun. It can produce some strong flare similar to that of the Irix someone posted - it showed a clear flare ring. IMO that's no wonder if we have a look at how the glass elements appear when we look at the front element. It's a lens for extreme angles and is constructed to deliver the best possible as such I guess - including some compromizes to be made.



If you are not aware of this and don't take care of it, you can get partial flare ring(s) in your capture. Here's an example that I made a bit brighter and lifted shadows so that you'll see it clearly (no further post processing).



#7 and #8 of my last post show a little bit flare, #6 and #9 don't.

It all depends on the angle the rays hitting the lens elements surface I guess.

I suspect the DA15Ltd being better in this area but until now I never tested it against the DA*11-18@15. It also would be a little contest to see the differences of the DA*11-18 using 18@FF vs. 12@APSC (simular angle of view) under such conditions.

Cropped?

To get a little bit better composition I cropped the first capture slightly - so not cropped because of vignetting. The other images are real full frame.

If you want to know more about the lens' limits on fullframe please have a look at my "comprehensive review" on pf - some hints on filter usage included. So it may be of interest to you.

[Stagnant]

Plitvice Lakes / Plitvička Jezera national park, Croatioa. Shot in 2016, reworked in 2020 from the original raw file. I used masking on the sky to selectively darken it. At the time the original image was shot functionality of DxO OpticsPro 10 (predecessor of Photolab) did not allow to selectively modify area of an image, so I had to find ways to bring out the shadows and keep the highlights. As you see the image ended up looking flat and unnatural.


Pentax K-3 II, DA* 16-50, F8, 1/200, ISO 100.


IVersion 2020 Version 2016

[Rondec]

Bread (DA *55)

[Crooski]

DA* 50-135mm

[acoufap]

Made with KP, DA*11-18 and Capture One Pro.