| Latest Review Posted | Rikoh Rikenon P 50mm F1.7
A lovely lens. I own this alongside the Pentax-M 50mm f1.4 and Fujinon 50mm f1.4 (M42), which you'd think might make this plasticky Ricoh redundant, but the three lenses perform really quite differently from one another. What I love about the Ricoh (beyond its size and light weight) are its colours and the quality of its rendering - it's not the sharpest or highest-resolution 50mm you'll find (though it's absolutely sharp enough), but the pictures this lens takes have a lovely, difficult-to-quantify quality to them: there's a calm, muted warmth to them and a slight greenish tint that oozes mood and atmosphere. I love it.
Otherwise, sharpness is great, bokeh is lovely, and contrast is subdued and subtle, suiting my tastes (I find most modern lenses too contrasty). It's also a bargain, though it's getting harder to find these for the absurdly low prices they used to go for. Your best bet is to look for an old unpopular Ricoh camera body with one of these attached to it. I was impatient and so paid $30 for mine, which is of course still absurdly little for a lens of this calibre.
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