[WPRESTO]

Little social flycatcher - K1 & DFA 150-450

WONDERFUL image!

[Kerrowdown]

"Bohemian Lady" Pentax-A 35mm F2.0 still earning her wings...

[pinholecam]

K1+Voigtlander 20/3.5

[acoufap]

The Skater


K-1 | DFA21Ltd.

[Rondec]

K1+Voigtlander 20/3.5

Beautiful shot! The perfect time of the day...

[ivanvernon]

Garden shots with the K-1 and Pentax-D FA 50mm fd 2.8 macro. Maybe just my imagination, but I never see anyone posting with this spectacularly sharp lens. Maybe it needs a thread of its own!

[pschlute]

---------- Post added 08-17-22 at 05:11 PM ----------

Little social flycatcher - K1 & DFA 150-450

Wonderful !!

---------- Post added 08-17-22 at 05:12 PM ----------

Beautiful shot! The perfect time of the day...

Agreed

[fs999]

FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax FA* 85mm F1.4 (IF) SE • Kenko Pz-AF UniPlus Tube 25


FF Mode • 800 ISO • Pentax DA 40mm F2.8 XS


FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax DA 40mm F2.8 XS
Route des Crêtes • Haut-Rhin • Alsace • France

[Urs]

Thanks WPRESTO and pschlute!

WONDERFUL image!

[ultraviolet]

First attempt to shoot a shooting Star
FA28mm AL, GPS/AT on, ISO1600, f/5, 13 sec

[Abbazz]

K1+Voigtlander 20/3.5

An almost ideal package for my cycling tour photography

Nice picture!

I also tend to use more and more the Voigtländer 20mm f/3.5. It delivers better images than the old Takumar 20mm f/4.5, the Pentax M 20mm f/4 (although this one delivers lovely colors I am very fond of) and the FA 20-35mm f/4. My FA 20mm f/2.8 (which I have never particularly loved) has developped an internal cloudiness that renders it unusable (I think it's a problem with the "compound" aspherical lens element). The big 21mm f/2.4 Limited mostly stays at home because I find it... too limited! It's too bulky for what it is (come on, my 2008 Sigma 20mm F/1.8 is 1 stop faster and not much bigger in size), has a so-so autofocus on my K1-ii (to the point I always use it in manual focus) and has no hard-stop infinity setting, The Voigtländer is not as fast but I can live with this limitation for a super-wide. It is noticeably less sharp at F/3.5, especially in the corners but it doesn't matter for close-ups or snapshots and I don't use f/3.5 for landscape photography at infinity anyway, except perhaps for dawn or sunset pictures (but then corner sharpness doesn't matter). There is one thing that the Voigtländer cannot do, it's astrophotography (think milky way shots). It exhibits lots of coma under f/5.6 that render it useless for this purpose. But it delivers good pictures of night scenes at F/11-F/22 with beautiful starbursts. See these Flickr albums (not mine): 20180611 ??? | Flickr | 20180629 ???? | Flickr

The Voigtländer lens has almost the same minimum focus as the Pentax lens (0.2m vs. 0.18m). I also love the fact it has a nicely damped focus ring and a real aperture ring, so I can use it on older film cameras as well as on other brands mirrorless cameras. And of course, it takes almost no room in the bag or in the pocket for those long hikes!

Cheers!

Abbazz

[pinholecam]

Nice picture!

I also tend to use more and more the Voigtländer 20mm f/3.5. It delivers better images than the old Takumar 20mm f/4.5, the Pentax M 20mm f/4 (although this one delivers lovely colors I am very fond of) and the FA 20-35mm f/4. My FA 20mm f/2.8 (which I have never particularly loved) has developped an internal cloudiness that renders it unusable (I think it's a problem with the "compound" aspherical lens element). The big 21mm f/2.4 Limited mostly stays at home because I find it... too limited! It's too bulky for what it is (come on, my 2008 Sigma 20mm F/1.8 is 1 stop faster and not much bigger in size), has a so-so autofocus on my K1-ii (to the point I always use it in manual focus) and has no hard-stop infinity setting, The Voigtländer is not as fast but I can live with this limitation for a super-wide. It is noticeably less sharp at F/3.5, especially in the corners but it doesn't matter for close-ups or snapshots and I don't use f/3.5 for landscape photography at infinity anyway, except perhaps for dawn or sunset pictures (but then corner sharpness doesn't matter). There is one thing that the Voigtländer cannot do, it's astrophotography (think milky way shots). It exhibits lots of coma under f/5.6 that render it useless for this purpose. But it delivers good pictures of night scenes at F/11-F/22 with beautiful starbursts. See these Flickr albums (not mine): 20180611 ??? | Flickr | 20180629 ???? | Flickr

The Voigtländer lens has almost the same minimum focus as the Pentax lens (0.2m vs. 0.18m). I also love the fact it has a nicely damped focus ring and a real aperture ring, so I can use it on older film cameras as well as on other brands mirrorless cameras. And of course, it takes almost no room in the bag or in the pocket for those long hikes!

Cheers!

Abbazz

Very good to read about your real use perspectives.
Yes, I often find that on a tour, I need a small lens more than a more perfect but large+heavy one.
Most things gets stopped down for landscape shooting and if its somehow to be used wide open close up, compositionally the subject is off center, but not on the unsharp edges.

I mix it up between using the M20/4 and the Voigtlander 20/3.5 nowadays, but the latter has the advantage of aperture control via camera and Av mode.

[ultraviolet]

FA28mm F2.8 AL

[Rondec]

Bridge Over the Potomac River (DFA 24-70mm/pixel shift)

[pschlute]