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 enlarge | Brand: Pentax
Category: Photography
List Price: $330.99
Buy New: $193.71
You Save: $137.28 (41%)
New (3) Used (1) from $190.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Media: Electronics
Maximum Focal Length: 50
Minimum Focal Length: 50
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 3.9 x 3.6 x 3.4
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 20817
Model: 20817
UPC: 027075030534
EAN: 0027075030534
ASIN: B00005ABC5
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Great Portrait Lens! July 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Becomes a 75mm lens when used with an APS-C sensor camera. It's not bad wide open, but use this lens stopped down to f/2 or greater for the best quality! This is the best value 50mm lens made and possibly the best 50mm currently made today.
Great, great lens July 15, 2008
This is such a fun lens to take pictures with. It is fast wide open. The automatic focus is really nice, but switching to manual gives you so many other creative options. Definitely worth the price.
For the price - essential July 15, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I purchased this lens through a different retailer (B&H) for the same price as advertised here. At first, I used it because my standard lens was not capturing my flash at a distance that I needed to photograph a large item that I was selling. Instead of a more powerful flash, this seemed like a better alternative. It worked perfectly. Zoom lenses are nice, but there are too many situations, especially with a DSLR, where they just don't cut it. For medium-low light, I prefer this to flash anytime, especially for $200.00.
Just buy it. July 12, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you've never had a fixed lens you don't even know what you're missing. If you've never had a lens that fast you don't know what you're missing. If you've never had an original Pentax lens on your Pentax or Samsung camera, you don't know what you're missing.
Just go and buy it. What are you waiting for?
Amazing Quality June 30, 2008
2 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought the Pentax 50/1.4 based on the suggestion of a friend and I absolutely love it.
I do a lot of product photography as part of my job, and I used to use a complicated flash setup with my older zoom lens that can take quite some time to fine-tune. Thankfully the 1.4 aperture of this lens lets in so much light that most of the time I don't need to use my flashes at all, just set the product on some white paper and shoot it using the natural light coming in through the window.
My only complaint is that on the crop sensor of the K10D camera I use it with the 50mm length can be a little longer than I would like (most DSLRs crop the image, so a lens will appear seem 1.5 times as long as it really is).
As much as I love this lens, if I had it to do over I would have spent the extra $80 and gotten the Pentax 40mm/f2.8 pancake lens. The small form factor and shorter length of the 40/2.8 make it seem like a more attractive option.
http://www.amazon.com/Pentax-Compact-Samsung-Digital-Cameras/dp/B00077KMXG
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