| Latest Review Posted | SMC Pentax-M 40mm F2.8
Long story short: I'd rather take one of the great 35 or 50mm lenses with me.
A 40mm prime is nice and useful, shame there aren't more of them!
I really wanted to like this one as it's such a cool little thing, but in the end, for me, there are too many flaws -
I agree with the others here that say it needs to be stopped down to f8 to really become sharp.
The lens does not like stray light at all, so you need a good hood in scenarios where the sun isn't behind you.
When you're ok with shooting soft wide open you still have to watch busy backgrounds as the lens doesn't render those too nicely I'd say.
For what it delivers it really is expensive right now.
That being said it can give you nice, contrast-y images when there's lots of light and you can stop down. Colors are also nice.
But still, as mentioned above, I'd just rather take a 50 or 35 instead, they're just better performers overall.
Attached there are some shots, straight from the scanner..
https://www.pentaxforums.com/gallery/images/67364/1_Unbenannt-8.jpg
f2.8
https://www.pentaxforums.com/gallery/images/67364/1_Unbenannt-1.jpg
f5.6
https://www.pentaxforums.com/gallery/images/67364/1_Unbenannt-10.jpg
f8 - that one's actually really sharp, yet it seems the gallery function of this forum further compresses / softens the images unfortunately.. |
