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Pentax lens selection

Started Jan 5, 2017 | Questions thread
MightyMike Forum Pro • Posts: 41,691
Re: Pentax lens selection

noel2 wrote:

MightyMike wrote:

zakaria wrote:

Slow lenses need also to stop down for best results.

Not in all cases, the slower primes like the 28mm F3.5, 35mm F3.5 and 135mm F3.5's in the past were more often than not better wide open than their faster peers were.

Quite true.

An example taken from my "archives" of a picture of the Milky Way taken in 1975 with a smc 28mm F3.5 screwmount at full aperture:

The lens was so good that I have kept it. Will have to try it out with the K-1 one of these days.

Excellent photo!

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