Pentax Manual Focus Primes (K mount)

[pentaxpete]

I have many 'Manual Focus Primes' here are a few photos and stories behind them ---
135mm f3.5 SMC Pentax -M on ME Super, Fuji 100 ASA print film, won me £ 2,000 -00 Lowepro Vouchers, taken in Cebu, Philppines
Sinulog Faces by pentaxpete, on Flickr

50mm f1.4 SMC Pentax-M on 1996 MZ-5, full aperture, Reala film, Simala Shrine with statue that 'Sheds Tears' at the back
Sibonga 04 by pentaxpete, on Flickr

55mm f1.8 SMC Takumar on 1973 'Electro-Spotmatic' 101 Years old lady won me Channel 4 TV competition - free trip to Manchester First Class and breakfast on train !
101 yrs by pentaxpete, on Flickr

[jimd]

This is the problem when someone tries to set rules on a forum where there are no rules!

[pentaxpete]

AH !!! do you mean I made a mistake and put in a photo taken on a 'M42 SCREW' lens instead of the 'K' Mount ? Sorry -- just noticed it !!

[Smeggypants]

AH !!! do you mean I made a mistake and put in a photo taken on a 'M42 SCREW' lens instead of the 'K' Mount ? Sorry -- just noticed it !!

Who cares!, the Phillipino girls and the 101 year old lady are superb shots!!

[Dr Orloff]

They are, especially the old lady picture. Are you sure the trip to Manchester was the first prize though

[starless]

Are you sure the trip to Manchester was the first prize though

Bastard!

[pentaxpete]

Ha ha !! Well it was to Channel 4 Studios where all the prizewinners had been printed from the negatives we had to submit. The previous time I had been to Manchester was in the 1940's when I was evacuated to Delamere Road, Rochdale, and we went on a Bus Trip and I caught something off one of the kids and was sick ----

[felix]

I only have some manual primes but only one Pentax. The others are a Chinon ,a Ricoh and a Polar.

Pentax
K85/1.8

Chinon
50/1.4

Ricoh
50/1.7 Rikenon P
50/2.0 Rikenon P

Polar (Korea - Samyang)
135/2.8

[ronniemac]

Due to popular demand, and the lack of an M42 club, membership to this one is now expanded to include all manual focus Pentax lenses.

Graduate status will be revised accordingly in due course.

Nice to see how many are manual aficionados have signed up, and to see some very successful photos appearing here too.

Distinctions are being awarded to those who use film for the submitted videos!

[ronniemac]

My 50mm 1.7 makes me a pupil. Which is nice.

But my "M" 28mm 3.5 is my favourite as it has been glazed by the angels.

Hi Pupil,

Your homework this week is to dig out a photo of and another by your M 28mm f3.5.

Welcome to the PMFP club!

How about this? Taken today in South Wales.

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The Sugarloaf
K100D with Pentax "M" 28mm 3.5

With apologies for the tardy response - I've been away for three weeks.

Excellent photograph proving that almost 40 years of lens development might have achieved very little progress. You certainly know how to coax life out of the venerable 28 3.5.
Of course, only in the right hands.

Thanks for taking and sharing, it is a lovely photo and very well composed.

[ronniemac]

I have many 'Manual Focus Primes' here are a few photos and stories behind them ---
135mm f3.5 SMC Pentax -M on ME Super, Fuji 100 ASA print film, won me £ 2,000 -00 Lowepro Vouchers, taken in Cebu, Philppines
Sinulog Faces by pentaxpete, on Flickr

50mm f1.4 SMC Pentax-M on 1996 MZ-5, full aperture, Reala film, Simala Shrine with statue that 'Sheds Tears' at the back
Sibonga 04 by pentaxpete, on Flickr

55mm f1.8 SMC Takumar on 1973 'Electro-Spotmatic' 101 Years old lady won me Channel 4 TV competition - free trip to Manchester First Class and breakfast on train !
101 yrs by pentaxpete, on Flickr

Peter, these are rightly acknowledged as top quality photographs. It is eye opening to be reminded of how good these lenses were, and so nice to remember the sense of life that film creates. Of course, it might be more to do with the person behind the camera! Really like the interior shot - so much detail and colour, but even more so the photo of the centenarian which truly captures one hundred years of life in a single portrait.

As Smeggy suggested, the manual club now embraces M42 and other screw mount Pentax lenses.

[ronniemac]

How come you have to have a 645 or 110 lens to be more than an associate in the Pentax Manual Focus Primes Club: (K mount) ?

Well I'm just a hypocrite and a cheat to boot!

Thank you for pointing out these anomolies, clearly I was looking at my lens collection when determining membership status - shame on me.

The Pentax Manual Focus Club now embraces screw mount lenses so perhaps the heading should be revised without any reference to K mount. All in the spirit of the inclusive nature of this forum!

If the Janitor could possibly edit the heading, I would be forever grateful.

[ronniemac]

How come you have to have a 645 or 110 lens to be more than an associate in the Pentax Manual Focus Primes Club: (K mount) ?

Actually it's a Medium Format (645 or 67) for Fellow you need that as well to get to Dean. It would make more sense to me to have medium format Pentax or 110 for Fellow then medium format and 110 for Dean. Wouldn't change my ranking but might help spread things a little.
Oh and yes the K mount in the title should go.
I'd did note that if you've got the f1.2 nothing else matters, but for me that's not going to happen

Still confused

Is this a club for Pentax manual focus lenses or Pentax manual focus K mount lenses?
if the former, why are m42 optics not included?
If the latter, why are medium and 110 lenses included?

Perhaps it should be called the Pentax Manual Focus Primes (K, M, A, 645, 67 and 110) Club, or just stick to K mount?

Indeed, but let's include M42 and the other one M37. Rules, on this forum, are either inappropriate or simply there to be broken. For the sake of easy reference though, and to avoid confusion, I think it best that we stick to Pentax manual focus primes for this club and allow others to set up clubs for zoom lenses and other brands, many of which certainly deserve their own patch.

What say you?

[bwlchmawr]

That old lady shot is wonderful.

[LennyBloke]

I've been trying to avoid this thread - I've sold off most of my K and M series lenses over the last year, but every now and then I find a lens that I haven't tried (on digital). My latest LBA acquisition is a Pentax K 135mm f3.5 - a very unassuming, ordinary looking and specified lens - not a fast aperture, not particularly compact, but just from playing around with it last night I'm pretty certain it's going to prove to be a real stunner