| Review of: SMC Pentax-FA 31mm F1.8 AL Limited by JohsonChou on Fri October 5, 2018 | Rating: 10 | View more reviews | |
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Reviews: 97
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Best Lens of All Time (That you can easily afford).
This is my main walk around lens, 31mm is excellent for travel photography. This lens is also small and light to handle.
Snappy AF on K-1, Below F2.2 it is ultra sharp. Unmatched color and unmatched bokeh. Sigma 35mm/1.4 fails on the latter 2 points, it is only sharp, but in today's world, sharp is cheap.
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| Review of: SMC Pentax-DA* 16-50mm F2.8 ED AL [IF] SDM by JohsonChou on Fri November 22, 2013 | Rating: 9 | View more reviews | |
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Reviews: 138
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This lens is very sharp when you actually use it.
It's sharpness at border sucks at border /17mm, but it's very good when you stopped down to 8.0. It's also super sharp at center at 50mm in larger aperture.
Since as a photographer, you only need to use smaller aperture at wide angle, larger aperture at 50mm for bokeh, I don't see any reason this lens is "poor at sharpness"
Color of this lens is very very good, it is as good as my A50/1.7
Take a look at photozone and DxO's MTF chart, it is consistent with this.
You should consider what you gonna do with the lens, not how sharp this lens is at largest aperture.
It's sharper than Sigma 17-50/2.8 in the the center at 50mm and overall at 17mm/F8.0. Yes, I have both lens.
Problem is the CA, you need really good software (like lightroom) to get rid of it.
Autofocus might be an issue, but I disabled SDM on this lens allowing me to use screw driver AF, which is super fast and accurate. When it is at SDM, it is very very slow...
I feel so sorry that I have to put my copy of lens on sale because I need money.
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| Review of: SMC Pentax-F 70-210mm F4-5.6 by JohsonChou on Fri November 22, 2013 | Rating: 9 | View more reviews | |
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Reviews: 55
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Great Sharpness, Great Color for portrait, excellent skin color.
CA is a problem, It is a little too heavy, autofocus is not fast
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| Review of: SMC Pentax-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL WR by JohsonChou on Thu March 21, 2013 | Rating: 7 | View more reviews | |
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Reviews: 97
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I don't think it worth the higher price than AL2 Unless you want to shoot in rain.
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| Review of: Takumar-F 70-210mm F4-5.6 by JohsonChou on Thu March 21, 2013 | Rating: 9 | View more reviews | |
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Reviews: 14
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Great color, I love the color (different from SMC)
Pretty light and easy handling.
Really sharp
Problem is that, the quality is low, it's basically plastic and mine broke after a few uses (2nd handed)
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| Review of: SMC Pentax-M 40-80mm F2.8-4 by JohsonChou on Thu March 21, 2013 | Rating: 8 | View more reviews | |
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Reviews: 22
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Nice lens for Macro job and Portrait. Doesn't seem to be possible to put on other uses.
Good sharpness and color.
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| Review of: SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.4 by JohsonChou on Sat January 26, 2013 | Rating: 9 | View more reviews | |
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Reviews: 113
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This lens is super sharp. I've compared it with the well-known sigma 50/1.4. Well hugh difference. The sigma is not sharp at all comparing to this.
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