| Latest Review Posted | SMC Pentax-A 50mm F1.7
It is a good lens, pretty sharp in my opinion - provided one can get the focus right. Most of the time on Pentax K-x the little green hexagon and beeping are correct when indicating focus, however, sometimes they miss the focus ruining the shot. Getting aftermarket focusing screen with split prism seems to be pretty much prerequisite for making use of that lens well on DSLR. The lens is usable without third aftermarket focusing screen as well ofc (the test shots in the present review are done with the default focusing screen in K-x).
It is much better image quality than the 18-55mm kit lens.
For approx 65$ which seems to be the average price currently this is very good lens. My only and main serious complaint about this lens is particularly flimsy feeling aperture ring. It feels more like afterthought on that lens than something that is intended to be actually used. It sort of feels like Pentax decided to go without that ring at all during the initial design and then just somehow jury rigged the aperture ring into their design at last minute. It's even worse than on some of the Pentax cheapest zooms like the SMC 28-90mm which is almost fully plastic very cheap feeling lens. Ofcourse on Pentax body one should be able to get away by just setting it to "A" and leaving it there. In my case, however, the intention was to use the same lens also on Sony a5000 in addition to Pentax K-x and while I really like this lens I probably end up getting the Pentax-M version ... |
