| Latest Review Posted | HD Pentax-DA 20-40mm F2.8-4 Limited DC WR
Before this lens, my main lenses was DA*16-50 and DA*50-135, but usually I left the 16-50 at home. It was too big and I felt the pictures it produced varied too much in quality.
I bought this as soon as it came out and fell totally in love with it. It's been constantly on my camera ever since and I have no desire to remove it.
The "weired" zoom range, wich I was a bit afraid would turn me off, really doesnt bother me anymore.
I tend to threat it as a 30mm prime with "adjustment possibilities".
I've used it alot with extensiontubes, and it produces great macro results with the tubes. The transition between the sharp and the blurred, I find to be just lovely.
The only trouble I have is that I cannot access the menu on my K-5 with the extensiontubes and it refuses to go beyond f. 3.5. Wich is weired because all my other lenses communicate perfect with my camera through the extensiontubes. It might be the DC, it might be a software issues with the firmware. I don't know.
All in all I find this to be a great lens. It has reignited my interest in photography and cured my LBA. So now it's all about the pictures, instead of the gear, for me.
It might not be everyones cup of tea, but for me this is the gem I've been looking for (with a few minor flaws).
(Sorry for the bad grammar. English is not my mother tongue.) |
