What surprises me is the line: "price of the lense (most expensive standard prime in its class, besides Zeiss of course)"
Are we talking about the Pentax SMC FA 50mm f1.4? That's the cheapest in it's class (Nikon's being close). FYI the prices (in GBP... source: Ebay.co.uk): Canon 50mm f1.4 - ~165 pounds Nikon 50mm f1.4 - ~135 pounds Pentax 50mm f1.4 - ~130 pounds Canon 50mm f1.8 - ~60 pounds Nikon 50mm f1.8 - ~50 pounds The only thing Pentax is 'missing' is an 50mm f1.8 lens... but the price of the f1.4/50mm is fairly low IMHO. And I had the Canon f1.8 50mm in my hands... cheap and plastic. I really disliked that lens. A friend of mine sold his because it was extremely soft at f1.8, yet I heard no real complains about the FA f1.4/50mm. The two reason I am not considering to buy this lens is: my Porst 55mm/f1.2 MF lens and my dream to get my hands on an FA 77mm f1.8 :D The FA77's Bokeh... is a dreeeaaam :D .t > http://roman.blakout.net/?blog=20080516134346 > ^^^ I'd lusted after this lense for over a year but something else > always came in. Now, knowing K20D CMOS sensor reads diagonal light of FA > lenses I'd decided to buy this 1.4 fast prime and here goes few samples, > probably just emphasizing on its beautiful bokeh. FA 50mm is kinda soft > full open, with few pixel wide soft cast but it's gone by f/2.0 and > lense is sharpest at f/5.6 - 8.0. Light is very well controlled and > level of aberrations is insignificant. Now I found my new favorite > lense. Shame it took ages to finally find it. Perhaps expectancy of FF > pentax body in December 2008 / January 2009 had contributed a bit to my > decision to purchase full frame lense here. > > Your comments are welcome, as always. > > Roman. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
