RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: Comparison Test of Four Different Production Units of the FA 43 Limited

Monday, October 04, 2021

Comparison Test of Four Different Production Units of the FA 43 Limited

Found this interesting article (in Traditional Chinese, Google English translated page here) that's worth a read.

Side-by-side comparison tests were done with the MZ-S for film and the Fujifilm GFX50S digital cropped medium format body. To view the test pictures in their original size (which can be enlarged), just right click and select to view the pictures in a separate/new tab in browser.

Besides the comments made by the author of the article, you may find other differences by yourself. As for years, I blog, you decide. :-)

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David · 180 weeks ago

The translation was not great, so i don't think I got what the poster wanted to convey. It seemed like the only thing I could understand was the newer lenses had more contrast?

Staring at my silver 43mm, which I got for an amazing deal, which is a newer Japan-built model, its so great to look at but I hardly ever use it.

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RiceHigh 110p · 180 weeks ago

It is mentioned in the article that the very early production units of the FA43 have a warmer tone and produce lower contrast images, whilst the later Japanese production units have more neutral colours and lower CAs in the OOF areas and produce higher contrast images. Furthermore, the author found that the centre resolution of the later production units was slightly higher.

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ToetSFX · 180 weeks ago

My positive comments are no longer shown. As 37 years Pentax user. Bye. Please unsubscribe me from this blog.

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RiceHigh 110p · 180 weeks ago

Hey, be happy, guy. The IntenseDebate anti-spam robot sometimes mis-judges posts as spams which need my manual approval to make them appear. So, be patient, as I am not online everyday these days. :-)