Wow: competition for camera gear is scarce right now. I picked up both 30 and 45mm Samsung primes, and no one even offered a competing bid on the 30mm f2 pancake! Bids on Pentax gear generally come high and fast* until the auction is closed, so this one-bid deal was unexpected. Is it lack of Samsung dealing, or perhaps our nearness to the holiday hard-sell weekend holding back buyers? *Quick tests of the NX 45mm show it to be a very nice lens - yet it needs to go back. For one thing I'm seeing the same old pattern on a new platform, grabbing items without enough thought. For another, my wife needs medical tests that cannot be paid for in camera gear - so it has to stop. I tested the SMC 50/2 on a PK adapter on the same scenes and re-learned that it is also a very nice lens, and one that cost about 1/5 the price of the NX45 (even including the adapter!).
So the list looks like this today:
(K for Pentax, NX for Samsung)
- K17 fisheye, NX30, K50/85/135 primes
- NX 20-50 and 50-200/OIS zooms
- 100-300 K zoom
- plus a few other K lenses: Hanimar 400mm, JCPenney 80-200, possibly a K28-70 f/2.8-4
*On the Pentax side things also went quiet. I received one low offer for the smcM85 f/2, and after some thought I have now removed it from the listing. Selling the 85mm should have brought me more money than the Tamron 90/2.5 macro and hence more satisfaction that I was breaking old habits - but selling it for a large loss proves nothing. Owning the 30 50 and 85 (all f/2) makes sense for both speed and compactness; even with K-NX adapter the latter two are pretty small and quite bright, and focus peaking helps them to do their best work.
