B&W Fine Art Photography
B&W Fine Art Photography
I received one of this with a Pentax Super-Takumar 50mm f/1,4 I bought some time ago. I warn you, this will be a very short review… This converter, for all intents and purposes, simply sucks. This, of course, at least used with the above mentioned Pentax 50mm f/1,4 Super-Takumar. Really, I’ve never seen anything worst. …
There are a few variants of this lens. The one reviewed here is the first version, that sports 8 elements instead of 7 and does not have a radioactive one (so no yellowing). The legend goes that this is the one with the best bokeh of the various 50/1,4 Pentax, and maybe the sharper. Actually …
A sweet lens, sharp all the way and with good bokeh. Teamed with the 45mm f/4 it was my walk-around lens. Its main purpose, the one for what it has been designed, is the portraiture. But it has proven a great landscape lens too. Its only fault, one that in my opinion it shares with …
I wish I could say great things of this lens, because I like it a lot. But, despite the quite useful focal length that brings a lot of space in your photos, this Pentax lens is not even near to the quality that we are accustomed to in the wide-angle range nowadays. Not that is …
Thousand of pro use and have used this camera every days all over the world, so it has to be good, right? And indeed it is. But the real question is: it is good enough? Don’t get me wrong, it’s a professional tool without any doubt. But, maybe because I used it at the same …
My sample came well beaten up, with the filter ring bented and the focus ring locked. I repaired it by myself with a couple of hammer blows. Now it works like a charm. Unbelievably small and compact for a SLR lens it is, like every almost other normal lens, a wonderful performer. Even if, for …