| Latest Review Posted | SMC Pentax-F 35-70mm F3.5-4.5
Ideal for casual walkabouts, street shoots, or as a lens for an always-with-you camera. It is small, light enough, has a reasonable wide-aperture range, good auto-focus capability and acceptable (to me) image quality.
I am sure in the right hands it can be enticed to make very good images but, as simple enthusiast, I have no complaints about this film-era tool. The zoom range, limited as it is, is a plus as the lens itself is so small that if feels like a slightly bigger 50mm fixed prime.
Many people have commented unfavourably that a lot of plastic is used in this lens but it has a metal mount and the whole package does not feel as fragile as, say, the DA 2.4 / 35 that I also own.
In the end, though, the SMC Pentax-F 35-70mm F3.5-4.5 is available so cheaply these days that it’s worth finding out for yourself what the fuss is about.
Below is a sample pix from me. A slightly better flickr version is at https://flic.kr/p/2m92mag
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https://flic.kr/p/2mbJ8h5
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