Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:58 am Post subject: |
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magkelly wrote:
It arrived today and I must say I was not too thrilled with the seller for a minute there. I cleaned it up okay, but it took a while. It had junk all over it, not fungus fortunately, tree sap I think and actual dirt not just dust. Leatherette strip was a bit grungy even after a good wipe off and it was cut too short. I stripped it off, cut a piece of red leather to fit that and put a red leather piece on the cap. I've been on a kick lately "decorating" some of my lenses, removing ugly rubber grips, replacing them with black or red leather or some decorative tape. I've got this red, black and white theme thing going on with my DSLR's. I'm a photographer by trade. I shoot with 2 Pentax K-30's in ruby red and stormtrooper white and a standard black K5II. The K5II is my main body but I do use the K-30's quite a bit also, particularly when I am working with kids. I used leather from some journals I found on sale recently at Office Depot. It's just a bit thicker leather than I'd like but so far I've not found any any thinner anywhere else so whatever.
Anyway, so far so good. Both lenses seem about the same to me. I'm not getting any appreciable difference between the lens labeled Tomioka and the one that's not. There's not much difference between them except the one labeled Tomioka has a silver lens mount and the one that's not the mount is black. They both have the silver rings and flat lens element. I think the Tomioka is in better shape overall but they both look pretty good to me. In the next few days I'm going to put on on a K-30 and one on the K5II and do some casual lens tests outdoors. But inside using items with text I honestly cannot see any difference between copies thus far. My eyes are a bit messed up though right now so I'm going to wait a few days and see if they don't clear up.
It's kind of hard to do lens tests when you can hardly see. Autoimmune disease. It's August, the dog days of summer, and I'm not up to much by way the past week or two. I've been running bad fevers and my eyes are blurry as heck. Typical of this time of year for me. I don't get a whole lot done in August, photo-wise. Soon as it gets a bit cooler I'll be out and about more though... |