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Good suggestion Richard. A flashlight and my eyeglasses
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if you breath on to the lens the moisture in your breath will show up any scratches on the lens ..should we really expect mint condition on quite old lenses ,most will have some marks on the glass and dust inside ,I know we all want the best ,but sometimes we have to have what's available or not bother .
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Well I've not heard of doing the breath test Paul. Good idea. I will give it a try tomorrow.
And yes, point taken re. making do with what's available. As mentioned, there is a dearth of quality 24mm lenses for PK mount in these parts, and what is being offered online is grossly overpriced. Hoping the little Tokina will be a winner. Reviews and example images online look promising.
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Svend and everybody really. I had a chance to look at Mifsud's and Ffordes last night and then a large camera and lens seller that I have used in the past and while neither of the first 2 suppliers seemed to have any 24mm Pentax lenses my e-bay seller had a couple but both were close to nearly £200.
There does seem to be more Nikon lenses in this focal length than there are Pentax At nearly £200 for a 24mm I think I can manage with my 28mm Mike |
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Crossing fingers that the Tokina is a good one. I am optimistic, as my old Vivitar M42 35mm was also made by Tokina, and it is amazingly good. I had always poo-pooed third party lenses as being sub-par cheapo stuff, and only looked at original Pentax glass. Needless to say I was quite wrong on that, much to my delight. It seems my wife's old Granny had good taste in lenses
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Svend, yes all things considered and with the benefit of hindsight if I were approached by someone wanting to embark on 35mm film photography now, I don't think I'd advise that person to go for Pentax It appears that Nikon may be the way to go with the rider that the way things are going with what appears to be a wave of newcomers to film, all cameras and lenses, irrespective of make, are going to go into shortage mode
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I hae just had a very qick look at Ffordes, for Canon/pentax and Nikon, and 24mm lens in general are in wide angle terms are by far the most expensive primes, and there is a couple of 24 to 85/105 lenses for Pentax, Svend, you might do better looking for a short zoom from 24 to 85,they seem fo be a better price, and in my experiance the short zooms are very good indeed, I have 2 for mi Minolta AF, and am very pleased indeed, but these are mostly metel compared to plastic for other lenses in the AF range,
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Richard, thanks for checking into that, and for your insight into 24's etc. As you say, 24's seem to be expensive little buggers for some reason. I have looked at short zooms but haven't really been wowed by any reviews I've read...however that was really only the Pentax OE models, I haven't checked out 3rd party zooms at all -- only primes.
TBH, at this point if I can get a nice 24mm prime that would be my preference. For my MX and K5 I have all other focal lengths covered with some very nice primes -- SMC-M 50/1.7, 120/2.8, and 200/4; as well in M42 I have 35/2.8, 55/1.8, and 150/4 (Vivitar, and two Takumars, respectively). So a zoom for the MX would be overlap. I also have an AF kit zoom for the K5 (18-55 weather sealed), but I can't say I'm terribly impressed by it's IQ so far....I will save it for rainy/snowy days. I will post back once I have a look at the Tokina tomorrow.
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Hi Svend. I don’t know if you can access eBay UK, but a search there for ‘Pentax 24mm lens’ produced quite a number of offers, both Pentax and independent. They range from around £50-70 for Sigma, Tokina, Vivitar etc, but the Pentax versions average around £150. There are quite a few of them available. Some are offered by private sellers, and others from shops. I don’t know how economical it would be to have one shipped to Canada.
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