[Rondec]

Initial slogan (since rejected) for the DFA *85 "The Ultimate Moose Portrait Lens!"

[Serkevan]

Initial slogan (since rejected) for the DFA *85 "The Ultimate Moose Portrait Lens!"

The people responsible for the slogan have been fired. The people responsible for firing them have also been fired.

[ffking]

I can. But I'll probably get more excited about playing guitar if I'm introduced to it via Led Zeppelin than bland music theory.

reminds me of one of my favourite quotes - by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

[nzondlo]

Initial slogan (since rejected) for the DFA *85 "The Ultimate Moose Portrait Lens!"

Give me moose portraits, or give me death.

[repaap]

The people responsible for the slogan have been fired. The people responsible for firing them have also been fired.

Ones who did not attend the meeting and was trying to do it with stuffed moose are still in basement and they have to send it back to Norm, in order to somehow save their jobs.

[Class A]

I for one have another explanation but it's still a guess: the NVRAM in the K-3 II might be almost full, therefore not allowing the addition of the lines of code optimising the camera's operation with the D FA★ 50mm f/1.4 and D FA★ 85mm f/1.4.

I wonder why there needs to be lens-specific code in the first place.
Shouldn't lenses present themselves as a black-boxes that perform in a lens-specific manner but present themselves uniformly to the camera?

Also, one could put any lens-specific code or parameters into the lens rather than burden the camera's permanent memory with many lens-specific sections. Upon recognising the lens, the camera could just load the code into memory. Lenses already contain memory, so why not store whatever the camera appears to require into the same memory?

Advantage: Does not require as much memory in the camera.
Disadvantage: Updates now require a two-way communication and the lens that needs to be updated needs to be mounted to the camera during an upgrade.

If the code is camera model specific, it cannot be stored in the lens. However, it shouldn't be camera model specific.

[thibs]

My memory tells me corrections infos are Indeed embedded in the lenses from DA onwards.
I may be wrong though.
But this may be overriden by firmware e.g. in the cases if aps vs FF

[Zygonyx]

ISO1600 ; f/1.4 ; 1/200s

Pentax K-1 + HD DFA*85mm f/1.4 (pre-serie)

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ISO100 ; f/1.4 ; 1/500s

Pentax K-1 + HD DFA*85mm f/1.4 (pre-serie)



ISO100 ; f/1.4 ; 1/4000s

Pentax K-1 + HD DFA*85mm f/1.4 (pre-serie)

[Wheatfield]

ISO1600 ; f/1.4 ; 1/200s

Pentax K-1 + HD DFA*85mm f/1.4 (pre-serie)

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ISO100 ; f/1.4 ; 1/500s

Pentax K-1 + HD DFA*85mm f/1.4 (pre-serie)



ISO100 ; f/1.4 ; 1/4000s

Pentax K-1 + HD DFA*85mm f/1.4 (pre-serie)

Wow. That's spectacular. I was hoping mine would arrive today, but it looks like next week now.

[Serkevan]

The bokeh is just so tasteful. Stunning lens, undoubtedly...

[pres589]

Those images are very nice. Thanks for sharing.

[bobmaxja]

The third one look so special, marvellous building like fading away.

[noelpolar]

When they're taken in unremarkable lighting and/or shot in a manner that doesn't distinguish it from other available much cheaper lenses.

A lens that is being claimed as an Otus-killer I want yo see how well it holds sharp focus wide-open at close to medium range, what its fall-off rendering looks like, and fringing in high contrast areas. Some of those characteristics were highlighted but these are supposed to be marketing images for a portrait lens so I want to see the reasons we'd even want this lens to be shown off prominently and attractively.

I don't understand why this opinion is so offensive and the ad-homs are coming out.

I can't recall a Pentax lens that has been released that had promotional photos that knocked ones socks off..... one of the reasons we are keen for some copies to get into the hands of forum members so we can see what it is capable off. Generally, we are not disappointed.

[RobA_Oz]

I can't recall a Pentax lens that has been released that had promotional photos that knocked ones socks off..... one of the reasons we are keen for some copies to get into the hands of forum members so we can see what it is capable off. Generally, we are not disappointed.

It’s really the initial photos that they don’t seem to pay much attention to, at least the pictorial aspect. That’s important in drawing some prospective buyers and a lot more casually-interested viewers. If you know their history, and you know what you’re looking for, it isn’t that important.

That said, it’s probably all the more important for a small brand like Pentax to ensure that first impressions are good across the wider field of viewers. Why they don’t is anyone’s guess. They certainly do pay attention with their longer-term promotional material.

[TwoUptons]

The people responsible for the slogan have been fired. The people responsible for firing them have also been fired.

I've always felt that Pentax marketing seemed to have owed a lot to Ralph the Wonder Llama...

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All it needs now is an aperture ring and a mechanical stop-down lever.

EDIT: Oh snap, Novoflex makes an aperture controlling mount adapter to get K-mount glass onto L-mount cameras. DA*85 on Sigma fp! Unbalanced match made in heaven!

Will it electronically actuate the aperture? Or does it just control it for KAF3 and earlier lenses?
IIRC, the Q adapters do it that way... they move the aperture mechanically as you adjust them for older lenses, but they don't contain a way to actuate a KAF4 electronic aperture...

-Eric (not Idle)