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Senior Member Registered: October, 2009 Location: southern california Posts: 220
2 users found this helpful
| | Review Date: February 13, 2010 | Recommended | Price: $150.00
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | Very sharp, solid build | | Cons: | none | |
the sharpest lens I own... and I own the 31mm limited. Can render a bit cool in some situations, but that could be the camera WB
Thanks
Scott
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Pentaxian Registered: December, 2009 Location: Montreal/Vermont Posts: 2,160
1 user found this helpful
| | Review Date: February 12, 2010 | Recommended | Price: $200.00
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | Sharp, compact, excellent boked and well built | | Cons: | None that I can think of | |
I got this lens off Ebay few months ago but only took it out for a "spin" few weeks ago. Looking at the pictures taken with this lens I regret for not using it earlier. This lens performs so well under any given condition. The IQ and sharpness are simply fabulous. The boked at f2.8 is also very smooth.
The macro mode while only at 1:2, it still gives a decent close up.
It worth every penny! The fact it's a A series, it performs very well on Pentax DSLR. I use it on my K10D under AV mode and images come out perfect 99% of the time.
Try to grab one if you see it!
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Site Supporter Registered: January, 2009 Location: Champagne Ardennes, France Posts: 20
3 users found this helpful
| | Review Date: January 24, 2009 | Recommended | Price: $135.00
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | Optical and mechanical qualities, both macro & standard abilities, look when mounted on K100D | | Cons: | no | |
I found this lens on Ebay after missing a M50/f4 macro. It was more expensive but I never regretted to buy it..
The lens is very well built (metal) and seems made to be used for a lifetime.
Quality of pictures in standard use is close to other pentax A or M 50, and macro use is a pleasure (smooth and fine focus ring), with a nice bokeh.
Ideal for insects, flowers etc..as well for lanscape or children pictures..
I think it could be very hard to find an other lens doing this job for this price.
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Veteran Member Registered: December, 2007 Posts: 8,237
2 users found this helpful
| | Review Date: January 12, 2009 | Recommended
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | One of the sharpest Pentax primes, color, contrast | | Cons: | none | |
A superb prime, scintillating colors and contrast. And it's one of the sharpest lenses I've used.
I've owned the FA version of this also, and it's essentially the same lens - in fact, this one may be sharper.
It has the perfect throw - I can manually focus this as easily as any Tak, and can even nail moving objects with ease.
It's realtively light, so it's absolutely perfect for casual macro and close-focus - no handshake like you get with 90mm+ macros.
Highly recommended.
 
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The story of how I came about this lens can be found --> Here. 
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Site Supporter Registered: November, 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Canada Posts: 299
1 user found this helpful
| | Review Date: March 31, 2008 | Recommended
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | Construction, sharp images | | Cons: | not 1:1 | |
Bought it new over 25 years ago and never regretted the purchase. Use it exclusively for macro work. Extremely sharp. Great construction and a joy to focus. Some times would have liked a 100mm macro but the majority of the time, this lens did it all for me. Some of my best shots were taken with this lens. Highly recommended.
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Veteran Member Registered: March, 2007 Location: in a house in Armidale, Australia Posts: 472
1 user found this helpful
| | Review Date: April 19, 2007 | Recommended
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | small, sharp | | Cons: | only 1:2 | |
the only lens I regret selling. It only goes to 1:2 and I wanted 1:1 but simply its small and sharp and I look back at the images I took with it, and they have a nice look (if the person who bought sees this, I want it back! .
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Administrator Registered: September, 2006 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 4,409
3 users found this helpful
| | Review Date: January 7, 2007 | Recommended | Price: $375.00
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | Build quality, a real pleasure to use. | | Cons: | Max. magnification 1:2 | |
This macro lens is small and compact and a pleasure to use with its smooth focusing and all-metal lens barrel construction. It focuses down to 24 cm and provides 0.5 magnification on a film camera. It must be used with an extension tube to get to life size (1:1) magnification. It is very easy to fine tune focus. The lens can also be used as a normal lens, but focusing is a bit more difficult on faraway objects than on a standard 50mm lens, which has a one or one and a half stop advantage over the macro.
Optically and mechanically I can't find any flaws at all. This lens is SHARP:
http://www.pbase.com/ooest/image/37872621
For macro photography I do prefer a longer focal length, though, at least 100mm which allows for more distance to the subject.
Max. aperture: 2.8
Min. aperture: 22
No. of aperture blades: 6
Closest focusing distance: 24 cm
Max. magnification: 0.5
Filter size: 49mm
Weight: 220g
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