My top 5 Pentax Lens 

I have the 150-450 and it's fantastic, built like a tank and nearly as heavy you certainly know about it after a day at an airshow, can't wait for the new apsc body to come out.

I have to say the Pentax HD 20-40mm Limited lens was my favorite on my Pentax KP. It was an inspiring combo to go out and take pictures that I sadly sold to grow my camera equipment around Fujifilm. However, I have kept a reliable K5 and the Pentax DA* 16-55mm 2.8 for those occasions the weather demands quality and performance.

I didn't have so many lenses to shoot with, but I can tell that I love my 100mm macro (old version), and 135 f 2.5, the 70mm limited and the sharpness (very modern) from the the smc_Pentax 50mm f 1.4 vintage lens.

I really like the FA31/F 1.8 limited, and then I guess should be the DA70/2.4. These two lenses are not heavy and size is quit small, you can take these two lenses and take photos a day, you don’t even feel tough to you arm. And the third one, I would say DA* 50-135/F2.8, really nice picture quality, extremely sharp, very impressive.

I take landscape and milky way ,so 11-18 with K70 is enough for me,but I want a normal one recently,then I found your channel !What a good channel!

Hey Li, thanks for the Video :) I know you will come back to Pentax anytime XD IF I have to decide for pentax lenses only this will be my top 5 (on APS-C Body) , depending on many outside Tests and experiences: 1) HD PENTAX-DA 16-85mm 2) SMC PENTAX-A 50mm F1.2 3) SMC PENTAX-DA 10-17mm fisheye 4) SMC PENTAX-DA 40mm F2.8 XS (absolutely underrated lens) 5) SMC PENTAX 500mm F4.5 My all over top 5 lenses to Cover all Situation at daylight are: 1) SMC PENTAX-DA 10-17mm fisheye 2) SMC PENTAX-DA 16-85mm 3) Tamron 70-300mm Di LD macro 4) SMC PENTAX-DA 40mm F2.8 XS 5) Samyang 135mm F2 ED UMC For low light These are my favorites: 1) Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 HSM Art 2) Samyang 16mm ED AS UMC CS 3) samyang 35mm f1.4 AS UMC 4.1) SMC PENTAX-A 50mm F1.2 4.2) SMC PENTAX-DA 50mm f1.8 (for less money you get a great lens) 5) Sigma 85mm f1.4 EX DG HSM And 6) Samyang 135mm F2 ED UMC 7) Tamron SP LD Di 70-200mm F2.8 macro 8) SMC PENTAX 500mm F4.5

Thanks for another great video. I recently bought a Pentax K-1 which I love (the decision was helped by your reviews) and am currently using a SMC Pentax-FA, F:1:4 50mm with it (from my old Pentax MZ-3 film camera which I have moved over from). I have been commission to take photographs of the workforce in children's centres across Manchester, UK (meetings and them doing their jobs in general as well as perhaps some portraits) which will obviously involve a lot of indoor photography of people in a range of lighting conditions. I also like to do portraits (not in a studio - just out and about). I am not particularly interested in landscape, sports or wildlife photography and like documentary photography and photography that feels intimate. I would really appreciate it if you could recommend a lens.

I use a 28-105 on my KP and I love it. A wonderful combination of a weatherproof FF lens on a high quality APS-C camera.

I use and like The Pentax 300 DA star prime a lot, still going after nearly 10 years of continuous use! It’s sharp! And suits my surf and wildlife shots while cycling around with my Kata side slung camera bag! Also yes the 20-40 is nice and is often on the camera as a walk around and landscape lens! I also use the DA 10-17 fisheye a bit when in the bush and travelling. It’s sharp! For sure the 100 mm WR macro is also a well used lens for me with macro work, particularly coupled with the pentax ring flash! I do have the big guy, the 150-450 DFA- it’s good too and my other lens I have is the 15mm LTD which is a small beauty too! I throw the da 1.4 teleconverter on the bigger lenses plus the macro occasionally! Love the Pentax lenses and hope the new DSLR is a ripper camera as my K3 and K3/2 are well worn! ( but still going strong😬)

The da* 200mm f2.8 is underrated i think. The colors are nice, the bookeh wonderfull. Very nice for close up, portraits, even landscape. And quite small. When i walk around in nature, i have this lens on my k5iis and a gr in the pocket for wide angle. Great combo.

My Top 5 are in no particular order as follows... 200mm f2.8, 70mm f2.4 limited, 35mm f2.8 limited, 50 A f1.7 and the 15mm f4 limited. !

Another great article of yours, thanks a lot! If I should limit (..) my choice to five glasses counting on my real experience, I would put in: the 35mm ltd macro, the 43mm ltd, the 70ltd (a bit of a surprise to me, didn't count that much on it at the beginning, owning the 77ltd: a beautiful creation but not so corrected for digital in some parameters, maybe); the 100macro (wr) .. and, maybe, the 55 da*..but I don't "love" it really, could be just because I still can't count on that magic 50/1.4 dfa* 😃 (could say the same about the 135fa, very useful, but I wish there was a new design..something like the Samyang)..or maybe the exceptional 35mm Sigma art f1.4, a great step up for me in usable large aperture lenses (considering the fa* 85 as an example..great, but not in all ways). That being said, I wish I could afford for the 50 dfa* f1.4 and the 11-18 da*, really..the latter being maybe the best chance on wide angle zooms one could find. I tried many others, but always found them a little dated in digital performances maybe. And, short before the 50 came out, I was already really after the Sigma 50/1.4 art to come up on k mount, because I was truly convinced about its qualities (also because of the exceptional, to me, characteristics of the 35/1.4 art, that actually Was available in k mount from the beginning). So when the Pentax 50mm/f1.4, similar size and digitally ready came out, I really started to revive my wishlist :} Thank you again! ☮️ :)

The lenses in my collection I like the most are Pentax da* 50-135, love it, the da*55 and the da 70mm and da 35 macro, wish I had the 15mm and the 100mm macro.

100mm macro my most used Pentax lens..

Now，we need DA20-40 review!😂

I have a lot of old manual lenses 28, 35, 50, 135, 200 k mount that I liked to experiment with. I realy like the 50 f1.7 A from Pentax. Now I am using a lot of Sigma from Pentax like 18-35 f1.8 and 10-20. Liked these so much so I haven't moved to full frame ;) Loved the Nikon, but moved to Pentax. I forgot to mention 70-200 from Sigma, or the 105 macro...

Over the years, I have used Pentax, Leica, Zeiss, Nikon, and Fuji lenses on 35mm film cameras. On my Pentax Spotmatic 35mm SLR film cameras, I used the following Pentax lenses: Asahi 28mm f/3.5 Super-Multi-Coated Takumar (49mm filter) Asahi 35mm f/3.5 Super Takumar (49mm filter) Asahi 50mm f/1.4 Super Takumar (8-element) (49mm filter) Asahi 50mm f/1.4 Super Takumar (7-element) (49mm filter) Asahi 105mm f/2.8 Super Takumar (49mm filter) Asahi 135mm f/3.5 Super Takumar (49mm filter) Asahi 200mm f/5.6 Super Takumar (49mm filter) Asahi 300mm f/6.3 preset Tele Takumar (58mm filter) Back in the late 1960s, when my Miranda Sensorex 35mm film camera broke for the third time within two years, a colleague loaned me his spare Pentax Spotmatic with 50mm f/1.4 lens. I fell in love with the Pentax SLR body and the 8-element 50mm f/1.4 became my personal favorite Pentax lens. The 105mm f/2.8 was my second favorite. Loved the portraits I was able to capture with this lens. I routinely carried my two favorite Pentax lenses in a 28/50/105mm lens kit.

The 70mm limited and the 100mm macro are probably my two favourite lenses. Other than that I use some manual lenses, I quite like (but aren't practical for most situations and have some optical problems with e.g. coma) like the 50mm f1.7 or the 28mm

Excellent video 😮!

The old M 50 1.4 is pretty great. Also like the 50-135. I haven't used most of the expensive ones...

I am a fan of pancake lenses from Pentax. I am using 3 lenses with K-01 most of the time: 15 mm, 40 mm and 70 mm. They definitely have their shortcomings and are not as fast as pro lenses but I just like their form factor and their sizes fit K-01 so well. I almost bought a KP but then I decided to get a GR-3 instead. I look forward to the new APSC model this year. In fact, I would not mind if Pentax would just upgrade the KP to Mark 2. What do you think?

I use the 31mm limited, the F 50/2.8 macro, and the samyang 135mm f2.

Nice video. How about 5 more of your favorite Pentax lenses? On my K-1: DFA 15-30 and the 28-105. I’m saving up for the 150-450! For my K-3ii: it’s the 16-85 WR and the 55-300 WR PLM. Terrific lenses.

Hi. Can you me which Pentax lens can be used for astrophotography and for potrait, landscape and indoor. Looking forward your reply.

How did the 31mm 1.8 miss the list!? That's my go to lens.

What would you recommend for a ultra wide angle lens? I love landscape photos!

I'm with Funkytouru for the 31/43/77 (meh!) and my 28-105 is very practical but a bit soft to my taste (maybe my copy?). I also have the Rokinon 135/2 (my favourite!) and the Tamron 70-300. Did a shoot test yesterday at 105mm with both the Pentax lens, the Tamron and compared to Rokinon at 135. Was surprised that my Tamron was so similar to the Pentax at 105 in details, and colors but had more chroma noise. The Rokinon was so sharp and contrasty and clean! Also for same exposure, speed was 1/60 for Pentax, 1/100 for Tamron and 1/1000 (!) for Rokinon. Major benefit there.

80% match, although it's optical quality I don't like the size of D-FA 50mm f/1.4. From my point of view FA 50mm f/1.4 and DA 55mm f/1.4 are better AF compromise, but I prefer manual A 50mm f/1.4. Also I like my 3rd party 55mm f/1.2 which is excellent for portraits on APS-C.

hey bud what lesnes for pentax is counter part of 50mm canon and 24-70 canon??

Nice video bud😀 it's funny reading the comments sections under your videos lately😂 Pentax people are passionate. I know it's probably too late but I would love to see a comparison between the Pentax star glass 16-50 and the Fuji 16-55. In Norway, used, the Pentax one is so cheap at around $300 whereas the Fuji used goes for around $700. Is it that much better or better at all?

My favorite lenses are the DA 20-40mm ltd, FA 77 ltd, DA 15mm pancake ltd, DA* 300 f4. (Sadly, I sold my DA* 200 f2.8) all on my KP

These are a series range from 15 to 950 with 1.4x adapter in 135 equivalent which is all weather proof and quiet motor. Plus a prime Portraiture lens in ASPC camera.

My Best Top 5 Lens : K1: 1. FA 77mm F1.8 : small and light and good boken i love this lens on Portrait.(Mabay next time DFA*85~i can`t wait ) 2. DFA*50 : night Portrait best choose ~ dfa*50 can hi speed AF in low light scenes(Live view mode too!) and F1.4 very sharp 3.DFA 28-105 : I can take it to any environment anywhere, light and waterproof, there is no better choice than it 4.FA 43mm F1.9 : this is a single eye ball lens carry lens. I always use this lens to survey and measure. 5.FA* 80-200 F2.8 : yse DFA* 80-200 F2.8 it a trash KP : 1.DA 18-50WR similar DFA 28-108 ,it Smallest 18-55 Aps-c lens chaper and WR! 2.DA 40mm 3.DA*300 : astro photography lens 4.DA 11-18mm : Lock focus ,Ensuring space for wrapping heating wires , and you can use filter! All the core photography needs, The best landscape lens! 5.SIGMA 4.5mm F2.8 EX DC HSM Circular Fisheye ( Not much choice for the no crop Circular Fisheye) 645z : 1.FA 80-160 : yes this lens heavy and flar has many Optical defect but it has god felling for me,It never let me down。 i real love ths lens every time. 2.FA 120 : best sharp ln in petax 3.FA 45 : two eye ball angle 4.FA 75 : Lighter than k1+dfa*50 and more better quality 5.FA 150 : best Portrait lens on 645z.

Allright Li...!!

16-85 3,5-5,6; the 55-300 plm, the 77mm limited, the 10-17 fisheye da, 100mm macro 2.8

Recently purchased pentax 75-150 f4 for about 10eur without adapter.... Men one of the sharpest on my a6000

28-105mm so overlooked, never understood the 31/43/77 but the 50,85 and the upcoming 24 or 35mm seem better to me.

I want many lenses mentioned here but not possible to get so I stick with my old primes smcm50mmf1.7 and smcm100mmf2.8

Since you stopped Pentax review you've never post as much post. Is it your Pentax testament ? 😉 I haven't test all this stuff but I'm agree with the 28-105. I've sold my 24-70 because of the weight for the 28-105 and I'm really happy with it. Another one I love is the 43mm limited. I have a K1 so I cannot use the 20-40 but I admit that with HD coating and WR it is really interesting

The 28-105 is just crazy, but it has been called a kit lens mazbe that's why its not appreciated. My top 5: Fa 50/1.4, M 40 2.8, Da 55-300(yes really), the 28-105 of course, and my best: Fa* 85\1.4

How about Pentax D FA 24-70-Millimeter F2.8ED SDM WR on K1?

Really cool. I got a 300mm f4....woh. :)

2nd DFA 100mm f2.8 macro (portrait + macro) DA 35mm f2.8 macro (sharp and macro, + reversed on tube can do 3:1 macro) DA 300mm f4 (super tele prime) DA 15mm f4 (compact wide angle) DA 35m f2.4 (cheap and good)

Top 5, as an APS-C shooter, in no order: DA 16-85 | DA* 55 | Sigma 8-16 | DA* 60-250 | FA 135

100macro wr, 70, 35macro, 21 and the 20-40

I have to save this video. Saving up for a house without PMI and I can not buy more glass XD

Pentax 100 mm Macro and Pentax 15-30 mm are amazing. I´m lookimg for more lens to zoom up the sky and sport too.

Which lens fits on the x-5 Pentax ? ? ?

are you selling your pentax gear?

Boi what you doing with that mud hahahaha

My top 5 Lenses for my Pentax are: Sigma C 18-300, Tamron 70-200 Macro, Sigma Art 30mm, Sigma Art 18-35 and the "Bigma" 50-500. Guess what: Not a single original Pentax lens on this list.

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20-40 this head, I now is still in use, imaging metaphysics really... Sharpness of the best focal length in the 25 to 35 mm 35 the most sharp, but 36 to 40 back worse and worse, but with F4.5 sharpness and soar to the highest After the individual focal length using a small aperture imaging will be better than the center around... This scene really iffy, overall imaging is unstable Xiao li give up evaluating 20-40 is not without reason Advantages: Though the aperture is not big, but the lens is really fully I done compared with 1650, the same light source environment and under the condition of the same focal length aperture ISO 20-40 three 5 shutter length is 16-50 What is this concept

For my own purposes, the best lenses are Sigma 10-20 3,5 HSM, DA 35 Macro, DA* 50-135 and DA* 300.

1. SMC Pentax DA 16-45MM F4 (MY GOD IS SHARP and insane colors ) 2. SMC Pentax FA 28-70 F4 AL (INSANE LENSE) 3. SMC Pentax F-ZOOM 70-200MM F4-5.6 (Sharp beast al the way) check link: www.dxomark.com/best-lenses-for-the-24-mpix-pentax-k-3-recommended-primes-and-zooms/

Canon is my favorite lens don't hate boi

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15mm, 21mm, *A 85mm, K 200mm f/2.5 , M 100mm f2.8, K 200mm f/4 .........