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Latest Review Posted SMC Pentax-F 70-210mm F4-5.6
To preface, I don't have massive amounts of experience with quality modern Pentax glass, as I'm pretty attached to legacy lenses.
I got this lens from a fellow PF user for only the cost of shipping due to a bit of haze, so that could partially impact my sharpness rating. For $20, it's a deal I couldn't pass up, and I'm glad I took it. On crop, this pairs excellently with the SMC-F 35-70 for a good all round kit if you don't need wide angle. In typical Pentax fashion, the colors are wonderfully rendered- greens in particular are really beautiful. I'm not much of a pixel peeper, so the sharpness is just fine for me. Not the sharpest, but it's definitely usable. Some aberrations and fringing in high contrast areas that can easily be corrected in PP. Like the 35-70, the front element rotates, and the autofocus can be downright VIOLENT and of course loud, but it's pretty quick. Required a bit of calibration on my K-S2. Manual focus is eh, not much feedback and tiny focusing ring, but it's fine if you're using focus peaking in live view. I'll be taking it back out to motor racing events once we get past the current global situation, looking to see how it performs at an F1 weekend later this year :D Plasticky build with a polarizing look, but I'm personally a fan of it with the white and grey body of the K-S2. Some images below. Weird lines in bokeh in some of them because I was shooting through a wire cage, but the first image is an example of some of the really nice circular boke...



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