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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
01-15-2019, 03:06 PM
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Hi everyone!
Well, as fate would have it I dropped off my DA40 Ltd. for a CLA just a few days before the Full Frame Coverage Tests article. The lens was ready last week but I just picked it up yesterday and shot these just now.
The aperture was slow on it for ages, which caused over-exposure, and even though I have a terrific FA43 the DA40 is a different beast that I’ve always liked shooting on my K-1. I originally purchased my lens second-hand without the unique lens hood, which was perfect for me because you should never use that hood on a K-1.
The FA43 is small and light, but the DA40 is about half the size and weight of that, and so it’s a really fun walk-around lens on the venerable K-1. Honestly it feels like shooting with a body cap, like snub nose pistol, or like some olde tyme box-camera (somehow from the future)! But enough of my borax, here are some bor-ing shots when I was testing out this new "mouse-trap" of an aperture arm I just got back.
These are two sets of 5 shots each at minimum focus, f16, f11, f8, f5.6, f2.8 all taken at ISO 200.
The first 5 are exposure corrected jpegs from the camera, the second were processed from RAW in Lightroom with the lens profile enabled. I didn't intend to post these pictures but since there has been a bit of chatter regarding the worse-than-expected scores the DA40 received, I thought they might be useful examples for anyone on the fence. :)
SMC DA 40mm Limited NO HOOD on Pentax K-1 (and one last shot in it’s own context wide-open at f2.8)
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