| Latest Review Posted | SMC Pentax-FA 28-70mm F4 AL
I bought this lens together with a broken camera and a bag (actually, I was interested mostly in the bag). As a consumer kit zoom of the film era, it looks and feels very cheap. My copy was made in Vietnam and is supposed to be optically inferior to the Japanese-made version.
I tried it on the K-S1 first and almost threw it in the garbage – not a single sharp photo! However, when I mounted it on my KP and did some AF adjustment, it was a different story. On the KP, this lens performs similarly to the 18-55mm kit zoom. It's very soft on the edges at the wide end but decent in the 40-70mm range if stopped down to F8 or higher. Not good for landscapes but OK for indoor shooting.
The focal range on APSC is inconvenient, neither wide nor tele. This lens is definitely not good enough for the K-1. I can recommend it only for those who shoot film and scan no larger than 6 megapixels.
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Cat portrait at F4
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45mm at F10 – sharp corner to corner
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Impressionistic shot wide open |
