Pentax K-5 II s. Indoor photos. The reviews on this lens in the Pentax forum were not accurate. I found that it is a good manual lens for portrait and still shots. Being an old lens (possibly made in the 70’s), it is well balanced with today’s K-5 and K-3 digital cameras while produces good bokeh and sharpness.
Penrtax K-5 II s. All shots manual, hand-held. No flash, no tripod. Heavy glass. Great exercise for my back.
Sigma 17-70 f2.8-4, Pentax K-5 II s. Light snow is OK.
Pentax K-5 II s. This is another obsolete Vivitar lens. High quality, comfortable to hold, sharp (for taking pictures of subjects both in the distant and in the vicinity), but manual, it makes the one behind the camera to think before clicking the shutter each time.
Sigma 17-70 f2.8-4, Pentax K-3 & Phoenix DGX2
It is a great lens for macro shots, but not usable (owing to blurred focus) for subjects more than 20 feet away when a converter (such as MD to PK) is used for lenses of focal lengths greater than or equal to 50mm. Camera Pentax ‘K-5 II s’ was used for creating this album. However, a lot of people are still looking for Minolta Rokkor lenses especially f1.2’s and f1.4’s because of their quality and ruggedness. But all Minolta photo gears have been obsolete. Yet Olympus and Panasonic are still making converters for Minolta lenses. Certain old lenses produce images better than modern lenses do.
Was lucky to get this obsolete new lens for $27. A little haze, but was removable by defog filter. A MD-PK adapter was used with Pentax K-5 II s. The last 9 photos were taken with Tokina AT-X 19-35 f3.5-4.5.
Tokina 19-35mm f3.5-4.5, Pentax K-5 II s, Mar13-2021 – almost the last date of winter, great weather for outing without mask, parking lot full in most view point sites. Left home at 6:30 am. I like blue sky behind white snowy mountains, and sunshine; I knew I came to the right place to settle. Most of the photos were original (no touch up) except those having too bright a background. The music was recorded tonight.
Vivitar 35-70 f2.8-3.8, Pentax K-3 + Phoenix DG 2X. The 100 photos spanned a time of 30 minutes before sunset.
Vivitar 35-70 f2.8-3.8, Pentax K-3 + Phoenix DG 2X
