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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-24-2013, 11:22 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-02-2012, 06:06 PM
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In the holiday spirit....
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-19-2012, 08:58 PM
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I Also added a review on 16-50 lens with those shots and new ones:
Portraits
Now I think I’m ready to make a report about this Lens. Lets try!)
History of the purchase
I bought this lens in the May of 2012, it was used. And I bought it for my brother, who is also Pentaxian. Because he has Me as his elder Bro. Before making this purchase I already had FA 16-45 and Kit lens and some others, so I had an alternative and also tried and was looking after other Third party lenses, and actually was thinking about Sigma as a better choice. But there was a good lens with a good price in a very good placeand time, and brothers money btw %))), so it happened. I was afraid about SDM issues, I think everybody buying this lens is feeling weird about this issue, but the original owner had no SDM issues with it and I bought it. I had no reason not to believe him.
Condition and Price
It was almost like New with all stuff like boxes papers etc. Also there were two filters 77mm – UV and CPL both HOYA, I think, both used. The overall price was 700$ so it was a very good price. It was in Almaty Kazakhstan, only a few people use Pentax Gear there so the second hand prices for Pentax sometimes lower there than in the outer world)))
I tested it carefully, the SDM worked perfectly, it was sufficiently fast. But every test info is already posted I think here is almost the best link
DA* 16-50mm vs. Sigma and Tamron 17-50mm F2.8 Comparison - Introduction - PentaxForums.com
Relationship history and my feelings about this lens
Here I want to emphasize that everything I’m talking about is just my opinion with no pretends on overall sence.
So I bought it in May and left it home while getting to my PhD studies in Novosibirsk. My brother used it and was glad with pictures quality, and the fact he do not need to switch lenses, to make portrait or landscape.
My main experience with this lens happened this August (2012) when I was on my hiking trip to Tajikistan in Fani mountain. It was a hard choice what to take – I had a several options: FA 16-45 DA 14 Da 18-55 Sigma 10-20 DA * 16-50 DA50 – 200 and DA * 50-135. And a key parameter was weight-quality. Because it was 17 day trip with heavy backpacks, so every 100 grams were counted. And chosen pack was DA * 16-50 DA50 – 200 (and I was glad because of the first lens and not very glad about the second). So I had a continuous 20 – 25 day experience of DA *16-45 Usage.
Conditions were extreme also for the technique: It was warm in a daytime and cold in the night, almost every day s was rain or snow, and in the tent it was wet climate. It was always shaking in my Photobag. I also took off the hood and mounted used UV filter(sometimes I switched it to CPL), because it was usefull. And what I can say both lens and K7 worked well for the whole trip. I will never complain about this purchase.
My K7 with DA 16-50 were always on my neck, I almost hated them))) because I also had a 28 kilo in my backpack. And there was a lot of shots both portraits and landscapes, I was very glad with this lens. It fully satisfied my needs. In the trip I had no energy and time to switch lenses so 16-50 – was the best choice.
I think this lens is a very good choice for a hard trip.
PS
Yes there were aberations, I new about them.
Best Regards.
Sergey
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-24-2012, 09:46 PM
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I think this is my favorite lens. It is my every day use lens and I almost never take it off my camera now. I was starting to develop LBA until I got this lens.
Here are just a couple shots over the year I've owned it.
Plums by AubreyCS, on Flickr
Untitled by AubreyCS, on Flickr
Smithsonian by AubreyCS, on Flickr
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-03-2012, 06:58 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-22-2012, 10:27 AM
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Morning lake shots with DA * 16-50
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-28-2012, 04:06 PM
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i love those car photos, Klaus! nostalgic look and interesting angles!
Last night under the Bay Bridge:
DA10-17 at 10mm
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-11-2012, 12:58 AM
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A couple with the DA*16-50. I liked the location but the tide was coming in so fast I barely had time for one shot in each location before having to jump from rock to rock to stay ahead.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-22-2012, 06:04 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-20-2012, 09:52 PM
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DA* 16-50 f2.8, k-5
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