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Anonymous
New lens. Asahi SMC Pentax-M 150mm, 3.5.

Results, I like them. What do you think? Too soft? Yeah, thats a tv btw, no processing done.

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>> Anonymous
It's soft, but it still has pop. I really like it. Nice and subtle, and you can always put USM on it if you want more sharpness.

If I had a 36x24mm sensor (film or silicon) that took K-mount lenses, I'd buy that. 150mm is a really nice focal length, too.
>> Anonymous
It's hard to imagine that a genuine pentax prime lens would be softer than my tamron zoom. And that's soft :)
>> Anonymous
Quite pretty, I like it a lot. I think it's an old optical formula...the old pentax Takumar 150/3.5 is a good one too (though not as lovely as the 135/2.5 or 105/2.8, which are both amazing portrait lenses.)
>> Anonymous
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OP here. To me the softness gives it a bit of a strange quality. This is a shot I took out of my window.

I can't wait to take it out for some real testing. Gonna need to pick up some filters though, probably a ND.

I personally like the way it shows DoF, then again I imagine most zoom lenses are kinda like that.

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>> Anonymous
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Some cropping and I've got myself an image. >.>

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>>144768
I like this, and I'm not sure why.

Might just be that Winter has made me yearn for any Orange I can get.
>> Anonymous
>>144852

Yeah, my entire fucking kitchen is orange. So, orange things follow. =(