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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-07-2017, 11:44 AM
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A couple of years ago, I was out driving around looking for something to photograph. I came upon this treasure trove of old Henry J's and a couple of old Fords.... a '49 I believe. When I climbed into the back seat of the old Ford, it sure brought back memories! I especially liked the smell that always seems to come with these old, vintage cars.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
10-10-2013, 09:51 AM
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I am grateful to Ricoh that my K-mount lenses have a future.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-15-2014, 04:34 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
11-13-2014, 07:58 PM
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Oh and here's one with the SMC PENTAX-M 50mm f1.4 attached!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
11-13-2014, 07:51 PM
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Here's my K-3 Prestige with the DA 50-135mm and DA 20-40mm attached
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-18-2015, 09:10 PM
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One of my all-time favorite walkabout lenses.
Effortless, brilliant accurate color and contrast, sharp across the frame, and let's you dive into the 'small world' whenever you want:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-13-2017, 04:09 PM
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Zeiss 25mm F2.8. Not by best photo but personnal reason to like it :)
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
01-03-2016, 07:13 AM
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But that's exactly it, it's soft on the borders, but excellent centre sharpness everywhere in it's range. A lens for the way people take pictures. Looking at my images there are no sharp borders after about 60mm, but the subject is always in sharp focus, and the borders are out of focus areas, and they would be whether the lens was sharp on the borders or not, and for 30 years Pentax maintained that was the way people took pictures.
You have to pixel peep to see 18-135 imperfections. And I keep that in mind when I use it, and my 60-250 handy for if I really need edge to edge sharpness. That being said, I rarely need edge to edge sharpness, most of the time it's an irrelevant metric, because the edges are out of focus anyway. Klaus version was just fine, but Klaus's method of evaluation, taking a straight average of what he considers to be a perfect lens, razor sharp at every part of the image and the highest possible maximum sharpness everywhere, is not what Pentax was trying to achieve when they designed this lens. Klaus method of evaluation does not consider the very high percentage of images where borders are out of focus, just based on depth of field.
Pentax goal was pretty simple in this one. Make a lens that gave you as much as possible without invoking the cost of a DA 16-50 type lens. The people who aren't happy less than the absolute possibility of sharpness all across the image hate this lens. Itmakes you think a bit. My saying "for many images the 18-135 is just as good as any lens out there) " doesn't make any sense because they don't believe it. They believe that an image tha is soft on the edges because the lens is soft, is in some way not as good as an image that is soft on the edges because the edges are out of focus.
Functionally, there is no difference, besides that the 18-135 is likely to have much smoother bokeh.
It's like the guy going to the doctor saying "it hurts when I do this."
And the doctors says "well don't do that."
I suspect what most people don't like about the 18-135 is that they have to be aware of the lens. As you move from 50-70mm you have to be aware your borders are becoming less sharp, and use the lens for only centre sharp images. I guess some people find it easier to use only glass that's sharp everywhere, and are willing to pay for that, even if it means triple the price or 40% less focal length. As you move to 135mm images with a 16-50 or 16-85 you have to change lenses too, so there's really no difference, except the 18-135 can save you a lens change if you only need centre sharpness, in which case no other lens you can use is going to give you better. And there are a lot of images that are only sharp in the centre. A fact Pentax acknowledges, but lens testers ignore.
People who don't like this lens, never learned how to use it. And in many cases were much happier with a lens they didn't have to learn how to use. "Just buy something that is good everywhere regardless of expense." For me, if I can use my brain to save me a bit of expense, 90% of the time I'll go for it.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-25-2015, 10:19 PM
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Very cool. I like the shadow of the tree in the foreground.
Some shots from St. Martin. What a joy to travel with the K5 + Limited's
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