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With Fall colors peaking here in central Pennsylvania I wanted an ultra-wide lens to use on my K3-II.
One came available on Ebay from a Japanese seller at what I figured was a pretty fair and reasonable price. I hemmed and hawed on buying it, but when the seller dropped the price a bi...
For some reason, the Pentax mount version of this lens was significantly cheaper than the Canon/Nikon versions I found on Amazon. The seller listed the condition as very good, but considering the lens age, I would have rated it excellent+. Optically, it performs as expected - superbly. Right out o...
This is a rare lens being discontinued for many years, and at least on Pentax there is no current rival other than the dated FA* 300/2.8 and Sigma 300/2.8 lenses. I don't have the experience with the Pentax DA* 300/4 to be able to compare at f/4, but the f/2.8 capability does bring with it more ligh...
This lens is a bit of an oddity. It has many optical imperfections yet can produce quite beautiful pictures.
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t's start with the good, the colors of the lens are quite incredible, especially with a polarizing filter they are just nicely saturated and get a beautiful warm look. In addition to t...
For its price - very good glass. Very sharp in closer distance from f4 (especially in center). On longer distance bit unstable. As all russian, old glasses it is lottery when buying. My example is very good - I bought it MANY MANY years ago with Zenith 122 camera (I was teenager then) and it was unu...
I probably overpaid a lot to get this lens. It's very rare these days and i spent months checking daily on multiple selling platforms to finally get it. Before i proceed with the review I can already say that the optical performance this lens delivers is not worth the price. For up to 500$ you will ...
I was lucky finding a mint example on eBay for £50 but performance expectations were not high based on reviews. It was cheap and my old Tamron 75-250mm (104A) adaptall was heavy, not much fun to use. That was last year and the first shots with it were all a bit disappointing, overexposed, not partic...
Few lenses from the time period can compete with the Pancolar in terms of IQ. It's sharp, even wide open. The colours are very pleasing, if a bit less bold than modern Zeiss lenses. (I find this lens renders skin tones especially flatteringly). CA is fairly well controlled, but the older coatings do...
