Veteran Member Registered: August, 2010 Posts: 648 | | Review Date: August 7, 2017 | Recommended | Price: None indicated
| Rating: N/A |
| Pros: | Color rendering, sharpness, bokeh | | Cons: | None | | Camera Used: Pentax K 5 IIs
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I love everything in this lens. It can be used as a portrait lens, macro and tele.
Some pictures:
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Junior Member Registered: March, 2016 Posts: 41
1 user found this helpful
| | Review Date: March 19, 2016 | Recommended | Price: $150.00
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | It's a monster | | Cons: | | | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 10
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 10
Value: 10
Camera Used: Pentax k10d
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Bought mine cheap with a good ring flash, after reading many solid reviews
of it I was blown away with what it does.
The optical quality is astral and the build is really great.
Built in sliding metal lens hood that is just perfect.
A great lens for the dedicated tripod user or close up enthusiast.
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Site Supporter Registered: April, 2015 Posts: 3,522
2 users found this helpful
| | Review Date: February 22, 2016 | Recommended | Price: $220.00
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | Sharp, fantastic colours, great contrast | | Cons: | none | | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 10
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 10
Value: 10
Camera Used: K5IIs, K3
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An amazing lens, identical to the Kiron 105 Macro Vivitar Series 1, Lester-Dine Dental 105 Dental and others. Made by Kiron.
Together with the great Bokina I value this lens as the best manual 100/105mm macrolens.
It is superior to any SP90 I had the chance to try (manual or AF) and all other 100mm macro lenses I had (and I tried almost all).
Of course it is manual, one knows that and accepts it, this means a a little bit more work.
Really great wide-open, here one can play with the fantastic bokeh and DOF, stopped down a little bit it is super-razor-sharp and yet... has great contrast. Colours are great.
Focusing with this lens is a pleasure, smooth and easy.
The only tiny disadvantage could be the weight, it is built like a tank, robust, great built quality, but it my lens weighs 615 grams without lids (the Vivitar, being a 105mm lens, weighs 650g, so a tiny bit heavier)
The Rikoh-pin is no problem at all but if you worry about it, just push it in a bit with a pen or similar, thats all, no need to take off the k-mount (which anyway is easy as well, have done so with many Rikenon PKR lenses).
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