Sunday 12 December 2010

Wallscape

Taken with Pentax K-x and my new friend, a classic 25 years old Pentax-M Series 50mm F1.4 lens. Back in the day, this was clearly the best choice for a Pentax standard (50mm) lens, and still easily outperforms the majority of modern equivalents. Remarkable for their open-aperture bokeh effect and superb light-to-film drawing properties, the translation to digital is a natural. Obviously being of such vintage, it has manual focus, so in these shots I stopped it down to F16 in an effort to compensate for poor focussing technique.