Your verdict of second hand lenses (older series)

wipka84

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6 Mar 2008 - 9:51 PM

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Any pentax users got any older lens from previous series that they are pleased with the results etc...or disappointed with.

Was just trawling through pages and pages of ebay ads for second hand pentax lenses and realised I have no idea of quality so thought I'd throw a thread open for people to share their bargain quality finds and rogue lenses.

wipka84

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6 Mar 2008 - 11:23 PM

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I was sort of thinking pentax lenses made for the film camera's that work with the newer digital models which I think quite a few do?. It can be anything really, thought I'd just start a thread about them all and see if anyone is using a favoured older lens on their newer model

Paul Morgan (e2 Member)

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7 Mar 2008 - 7:04 AM

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Stick to primes, the older zooms will not be that good on digital.

You can get some suprisingly good results as this artical shows.

here

Paul Morgan (e2 Member)

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7 Mar 2008 - 9:31 AM

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That artical I linked to used an old zuiko, results from a pentax, minolta rokkor etc would have been much the same.

spt

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7 Mar 2008 - 9:43 AM

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I like using my SMC-M 50mm f/1.7 and SMC-M 28mm f/3.5 on my K100D. I've recently acquired an SMC-A 50mm f/2.8 macro which looks good too. I get the impression that most of the Pentax primes will work pretty well. Any of the 50mm lenses will give you a sharp, fast lens at a very low cost.

There are some useful comments on most older Pentax lenses here , though it doesn't seem to have been updated for a long time, and makes no mention of digital at all.

The SMC-A series (which are the last manual focus series) will allow you to use most of the exposure modes of the camera. The SMC-M series will only work in manual exposure mode, though metering still works well, and once you've got used to pressing the AE-L button to set the exposure it isn't really much inconvenience.

kenp

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8 Mar 2008 - 3:01 PM

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My all time favourite!.........Pentax "A" 50mm 1.7...........I've fallen in love with it....lol..........Ken