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Latest Review Posted	SMC Pentax 135mm F2.5 I got this lens for only £29 so on that basis alone it's a great lens! I'll get the negatives out the way now: 1). It's very long minimum focus distance can be very frustrating. It really tempts you to take close up shots and play with it's bokeh but it then slaps you in the face with it's MFD! 2). In situtation where you have a combination of poor light and high contrast - i.e. that horrible grey/white featureless sky with flat lighting, the lens will produce A LOT of green and purple fringing. Often this can be reduced in PP but stopping down the lens helps - it's at it's worst wide open. Other than these two things though the lens is an excellent piece of glass: 1) Images have an amazing 3D look 2) The lens has very even sharpness across the board and is sharp enough from wide open. Stopped down to f/5.6 it comes close to the 43mm Ltd in my opinion (certainly enough that you won't notice the difference unless pixel peeping) 3) The bokeh is great and reliable. The lens' main advantage it's beautiful rendering of light though. It produces images that capture the essence of the scene. I often find that I take a photograph of something and the lens somehow misses the character of what I am seeing with my eyes. The K-135mm maintains the magic of a subtle light. And because it general does this all the time fairly standard shots can be given a special feel. It's similar to the original FA limted "look" but a touch more ethereal. This isn't to...

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