RE: Non K-mount portrait lenses

2004-10-26 Thread J. C. O'Connell
K-mount portrait lenses Collin Brendemuehl wrote: >I know you asked about lenses other than K-mount, but ... > >I may give the M75-150 a go for a portrait. It's reasonably sharp and >a good range, with optimum sharpness definitely from 80-120mm. > >Sincerely, > >

Re: Non K-mount portrait lenses

2004-10-26 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Kostas Kavoussanakis" Subject: RE: Non K-mount portrait lenses On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Shel Belinkoff wrote: Take a look at the Pentax M 75~150 Zoom. I don't care much for it except as a portrait lens. Seconded, though it's widest aperture

Re: Non K-mount portrait lenses

2004-10-26 Thread Henri Toivonen
Collin Brendemuehl wrote: I know you asked about lenses other than K-mount, but ... I may give the M75-150 a go for a portrait. It's reasonably sharp and a good range, with optimum sharpness definitely from 80-120mm. Sincerely, C. Brendemuehl I got me one for portraits, it has a nice feel and

RE: Non K-mount portrait lenses

2004-10-26 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
I know you asked about lenses other than K-mount, but ... The A100/2.8 goes < $200 on eBay. There's one from GB listd right now. It's just a little long, but still very good for bust shots. And the contrasty A coatings help. Interestingly, M100/2.8 lenses, with slightly warmer coatings, have

RE: Non K-mount portrait lenses

2004-10-26 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Take a look at the Pentax M 75~150 Zoom. I don't care much for it except > as a portrait lens. Seconded, though it's widest aperture is f4. Only came out of my bag when I bought the more versatile and AF F70-210. However, the 75-150 is light and short

Re: Non K-mount portrait lenses

2004-10-25 Thread Caveman
You may also take a look at the 90mm macro lenses out there. Jon M wrote: I've been looking for a while at getting a portrait lens in the 70-85 range. The A85/1.4 is prohibitively expensive, the K85/1.8 is also out there, and even the "lowly" M85/2 tends to go for more than I can swing at this poin

RE: Non K-mount portrait lenses

2004-10-25 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Take a look at the Pentax M 75~150 Zoom. I don't care much for it except as a portrait lens. You might get one fairly inexpensively. Jupiter lenses are a pretty good buy, IMO, having used a couple on the Leica. Expectations are such that an M42 version would be comparable. There were lots of M4

RE: Non K-mount portrait lenses

2004-10-25 Thread Don Sanderson
I use it on my ist-D and it works great. (BTW: There was one on eBay yesterday, I won't post the URL due to PDML "suggestions".) ;-) Don > -Original Message- > From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 8:10 PM > To: [E

Re: Non K-mount portrait lenses

2004-10-25 Thread Paul Stenquist
You might look for an M42 Super Takumar 85/1.9. It's more affordable than the M42 SMC Tak 85/1.8, yet it's quite good. Far superior, I would guess, to any of the very early M39 lenses. Paul Stenquist On Oct 25, 2004, at 9:02 PM, Jon M wrote: I've been looking for a while at getting a portrait l

Non K-mount portrait lenses

2004-10-25 Thread Jon M
I've been looking for a while at getting a portrait lens in the 70-85 range. The A85/1.4 is prohibitively expensive, the K85/1.8 is also out there, and even the "lowly" M85/2 tends to go for more than I can swing at this point. I occasionally see M42 and M39 lenses in this range on ebay, some Zei