asant

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Price Paid:  $250.00 from Adorama

Summary:
Realy excellent lens with great built quality. Is use it as my standard prime mainly for portraits and landscape. It is super-sharp and I just love its bokeh.

Strengths:
- Built quality
- Size and weight
- Sharpness
- Lovely Bokeh
- PRICE

Weaknesses:
Just one little thing (but I must be really picky): I had and issue with its size in combination with COKIN P filters - the filter holder gest too close to the camera and cannot fully rotate as it is stopped by the camera bulit-in flash. But I understand, that a 49mm filter screw should wear an COKING A filter, not the P ones I use with my 16-50 zoom.

Similar Products Used:
Pentax 70mm limited

Customer Service:
Have no experience

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
I have absolutely nothing bad to say about this lens! It's tack sharp (if you model has large pores, or fine wrinkles, be prepared to do some airbrushing)! It's tiny. I like to travel with this lens alone if I'm going somewhere where bulky packs will be a problem (and you can carry your camera in slim-profiile bag that doesn't necessarily have to scream "camera inside"). I absolutely love it and use it 85% of the time.
If only it were physically possible to create pancake lenses for a wide angle lenses and a portrait-length lens, I'd only use primes. Even with the DA* lenses coming out, this is going to be my go-to lens.

AND...

it's inexpensive enough not to worry about damaging!

Strengths:
super, SUPER SHARP
nice and light
focuses fast and sharp

Weaknesses:
none. absolutely none

Similar Products Used:
50mm f/1.8 AND f/1.4 from Pentax, Minolta, Canon and Nikon
Pentax 43mm f/1.9 Limited

benjikan

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
4.33 of 5,
6 votes

Price Paid:  $400.00 from Paris

Summary:
I have only had this lens for about a week and it never ceases to amaze me as to how incredibly sharp this lens is. Looks strange on my K10D's with Battery grips. People seeing it don't know what to make of it.

One of the best prime lenses in this focal length i.e. 35 to 60mm.

The image I uploaded is just one example of how sharp and saturated this lens is.

http://www.pressbook.com/homebook.asp?langue_id=2&owner_id=5144

Strengths:
Extremely sharp, great contrast and very good focus speed on the K10D

Weaknesses:
ZERO...

Similar Products Used:
21, 40, 70 mm Pancake Lenses

Customer Service:
Not Needed