I had been eyeing a
Pentax, 35mm, f2.8 SMC lens for a while on www.KEH.com.
In fact I guess I eyed it a little too long so by the time my wife went to
order it for my birthday it was gone. Let that be a lesson to any of you who
may be considering following in my footsteps and acquiring your own film camera
equipment. They’re not making any more of this stuff and when its gone its
gone.
One of the many
reasons I went with Pentax was because there seemed to be more of it available
than other brands and it is almost all interchangeable, certainly the K-mount
stuff is. However, I quickly realized that unless I wanted to shell out $300+
for a 35mm f2 lens there just weren’t anymore 35mm lenses in excellent or
better condition to be had.
I had never shot with
a 28mm lens but I had friends that swore by them so that was my second choice.
Coincidentally, KEH happened to have one, an f2.8, in excellent condition –
Happy Birthday to me!
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