New (to me) Pentax K5 and 20-40 Limited

[wlewisiii]

After some foibles with FedEx, I finally got it in hand last night and took it out today. Very nice compact system that I think I'm going to enjoy enormously. These are, essentially, test shots. However they do tell me a fair bit. I took them as DNG RAW, prorocessed in ART and was quite pleased with the shadows at the bench and the sun in the last one. I also have a F 35-70 lens that I thought at first was hazed but it looks as though the "haze" was a badly scuffed a dirty UV filter (whew).

 

[Jbennett68]

The limited lenses are nice. I have a few from when is was shooting a Pentax aspc camera. Recently discovered they had a run of a ltm special lens in 43mm. I’ve been tempted.

 

[wlewisiii]

Oh, that would be dangerous to the wallet 🙂

 

[Cascadilla]

I still have a Pentax K 5 that I bought in 2012. It is fairly compact for a DSLR and the image quality has been pleasing for me with various lenses, including some Pentax classics like a 35 mm f/2, 50 mm f/1.4 and 85 mm f/1.8. This now my "at home" camera since it has been superseded by first K3 bodies and later K1 in my studio. One pleasant surprise is how well the in body stabilization works in the K 5, enabling photos of the moon hand held with a Pentax 50-200 zoom that is f/5.6 on the long end. The Pentax limited lenses are typically excellent in quality, so I'm sure that you will enjoy this camera.

 

[wlewisiii]

Yes, I am finding it very enjoyable. It fits in the same bag with my M 240 quite well too.

 

[wlewisiii]