Lens Love

As I've mentioned before, Cristie & I are using cameras that can use almost any lens made for any system -- Leica, Carl Zeiss, etc.  Lately, we've been buying & trying many lenses, some of them very old and specialized.

The plan is eventually to sell 90% of these - the ones we don't fall in love with.

Today a lens arrived that is so wonderful we're sure it's a keeper -- it's already pushed a bunch of other lenses right into the "sell" pile! 

For those who care, it's a Pentax "Limited Edition" 77mm f1.8.  Anyway, here are a few sample images from it, and as always click on them to see them a little larger.

Here are a couple of test shots of art pieces in the music/TV room.

Snapshot of me sitting at my desk (wearing green for St. Patrick's Day)

And finally I took a test shot of a flower on our patio.  This picture is nothing special -- the shadows & background are ugly ...

But click on this crop from the picture above, showing what the lens can do!