| Latest Review Posted | SMC Pentax-FA 35-80mm F4-5.6
Very enjoyable lens. It had been sitting in a closet for the past 13 years, but brought it back into service a few months ago after buying e-mount adapter for my Sony cameras. I actually like this lens better with the APS-C format for 2 reasons. The crop factor focal range (52-120mm) works really well for my shooting, and the softness around the edges I recalled from some of my previous 35mm film shots seems to have been cropped out. Still slightly soft wide open, but very useable.
Everything is manual or aperture priority with these cameras, but that is part of the fun of the lens for me. Focus peaking and magnification features make it super easy to focus.
Overall very sharp images and surprisingly nice bokeh. Only criticisms; aperture ring could have more positive feel, focus ring could be damped better, and lens/filter rotate when focusing, which makes using polarizing filter more difficult.
sample shots:
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