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Friday, April 13, 2012

When the Super Pancake Meets Different Bodies~

1. First of all, see the ever thinnest Full Frame lens on a very thin film SLR body!



Full compatability with all the supported functions is ensured for the above combo!

The mount is made of metal, but surely it is not stainless steel. I suspect it is made of aluminium or brass, which is then coated later:-



Btw, the overall build quality of this lens is indeed cheap.

And the total weight is.. (Without film and batteries loaded)



..in 432g only, for a workable *camera*, i.e., body with lens! And, it's my most favourable focal in 40mm in 135 FF, as my first fixed focal camera had it.

2. Put it on a K-x:-



Not much larger than on a K-01? Right? But it has an Optical Viewfinder!

And the weight (without batteries and card also):-



3. Put it on a K-5:-



The combo is not as good looking, I'm afraid. But the colours are matching, i.e., Black to Black. (not back to back ;->)

In fact, mounting and detaching this super thin lens is rather difficult just because it is just too thin to hold. I don't have very large hands btw.

After all, this thin pancake will be tested and it will start its poor fate of being measurbated, forever, in the hands of a measurbator! ;-D



Initial rough test of the lens in shooting reveals that it is quite sharp optically, nearly from corner to corner, even at f/2.8 wide opened! AF is accurate and bokeh is great. The colour rendition is yet another thing, which I think my early Japanese production FA43 performs far better.

Finally, I have to complain yet once again about the poor cleaniness of the lens inside, which is full of dust and could have some scratches on the glass elements inside. Normally, these cannot be seen until the lens is pointed to a bright light source, push open the aperture level and look through it, I am almost sure that you could see many of them!

P.S. This is exactly the 30th lens in my current arsenal. :-)


Related:-

Dirty Pentax Lens Factory, Dirty Glass! :-(

"Film is Dead"! ;-)

Brief Hands-on with the K-01 and My First Impressions

Can Pentax DSLRs be Made Thinner?

What Will be My 10th/Next DSLR/ILDC Body? (Which Now is the K-5!)

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We love the old and small SLRs, which is why the Olympus E-m5 is so attractive. BTW, did you read this review and its amazing test results
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/cameras-and-camc...
30 lenses?!
Are you joking? can you list them all out of interest,would like to see how/why someone would want/need that many
3 replies · active 673 weeks ago
Search this Blog, you could see quite some of them. Btw, many old Pentaxians have far more lenses than me.
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Michael A. · 673 weeks ago

It's called LBA (lens buying addiction), Pentax just made way too many neat lenses...
Disagree. To me, it is just Lens Buying Addition but nothing more than that! ;-) It is because I actually have no strong desire in getting every new stuff created by Pentax, unless it does fulfil some of my usage requirements and have some real additional meanings to me.
I have a few lenses and want 'a few more'. Once I have them I'll probably want more.
Currently I have
Sigma 30mm f1.4
Tamron 17-50mm f2.8
Sigma 70-200 f2.8
Pentax 100mm f2.8 1:1 macro

i'd like a 10-20 wide angle lens next, who knows after that.
1 reply · active 673 weeks ago
Try/use/buy more Pentax glass and you will find a difference!
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David Stewart · 673 weeks ago

"The mount is made of metal, but surely it is not stainless steel. I suspect it is made of aluminium or brass, which is then coated later:-"

Most older lenses use brass plated with something. If you don't want to scratch up any of your lenses, here's some I did, Pentax and others:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7y1rArCMYMO...

Brass makes more sense to me than stainless steel. It might wear some, but if the lens's mount is super hard, it will cause a lot of wear on the camera. Cheap plating will pit, but otherwise brass is perfectly functional.
1 reply · active 673 weeks ago
So, plastic lens mount has its value! :-)

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