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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
12-07-2014, 09:25 AM
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I own three M42 Super Taks and while I love the 55 F/2, I have yet to warm to the others. Still, I bought them all for reverse mount macro work and I shoot them mounted normally as often as I do macro with them. Much to my surprise actually.
A good lens is a good lens regardless of when it was made or how old, or new, it is. Autofocus is nice but imperfect and it's nice to be able to blame the machine for less than stellar shots. On the other hand, I do feel some extra amount of pride for the shots that turned out good that were manually focused.
This is one of my favorite shots that I've ever taken and it was manually focused. Taken with the 55 F/2 Super Tak.
A lot of people that are active on the internet on photography forums and websites are more gear enthusiasts and collectors than photographers. There's a lot of overlap between computer guys and dslr guys. So it's unsurprising that there's a contingent of people that assume that only the newest is worth using and everything else is crap.
The biggest reason that I love these forums is how friendly and open minded people generally are and, while we love to ohh and ahh over new gear, people generally seem to know that it doesn't really matter how old or new your gear is, if you know what you are doing you can take great pictures with anything.
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