| Latest Review Posted | Ricoh XR Rikenon 50mm F1.7
Anyone with a Pentax DSLR should have one of these. It's my favorite lens in my bag.
The build quality is solid. The lens looks and feels just right. And the image quality is beautiful - 1.7 is good in low light and gets even sharper at 2.8 and 4.
It was one of Ricoh's standard lenses, bundled with their XR film film bodies for many years in kits, as did Sears. There are thousands of these lenses sitting in old camera bags on closet shelves all over the world, only lightly used at Christmas dinners and birthdays.
They're frequently sold on Ebay by people who pick them up at estate sales. They see an old obsolete film piece that might be worth a few dollars, unaware that it has considerable value to modern Pentax DSLR owners like us. So they're absurdly inexpensive for what they are and represent a great opportunity for us. At around $15 on Ebay, the lens is cheaper than some lens caps.
And worry not about the infamous Ricoh pin - this lens (the non-P version) doesn't have it.
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