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Pentax SMCP-FA 50mm f/1.4 Lens | 
 enlarge | Brand: Pentax
Category: Photography
List Price: $330.99
Buy New: $197.95
You Save: $133.04 (40%)
New (3) Used (1) from $188.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Media: Electronics
Maximum Focal Length: 50
Minimum Focal Length: 50
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 3.9 x 3.7 x 3.3
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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| Features:
| • | Only 1.5 inches and 7.8 ounces | | • | 47 degree angle of view | | • | Fixed 50mm focal length | | • | Fully automatic diaphragm | | • | Lens construction of 6 elements in 5 groups |
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Product Description
The Pentax interchangeable lens system provides a complete line of high-quality lenses to satisfy your every creative need. Offering a wide range of focal lengths, functions and effects for different formats, Pentax lenses are designed to maximize each camera's capabilities.
Amazon.com Product Description
The Pentax SMCP-FA 50mm f1.4 lens has a fully automatic diaphragm. At 1.5 inches long and weighing just 7.8 ounces, you can take this 50mm fixed focal length lens with you everywhere. You can use this lens with all Pentax SLR cameras, but the AF system only works with Pentax AF cameras.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
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
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
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
1 out of 1 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
 Great Lens June 25, 2008
For a very inexperienced photographer, this lens was a good purchase. I recommend getting a prime lens to force you to move when composing your shots. And this lens has such a great depth of field when wide open, you can get really creamy shots. I'm really happy with the performance as well. When shooting faces, everything was very sharp and looked really great. The construction knocks off 1 star. The aperture ring can shift a tiny bit so that the camera thinks it isn't on automatic. You have to twist the ring back over to get it to register. I only have to do this a couple of times, but it's worth noting. The autofocus can be finicky if you're trying to shoot in really low light.
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