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Old, Good Glass.

The Pentax 50mm f1.4 is good glass.

It has a genuinely beautiful quality wide open. Sharp on the focus point (hair in front of the eyes), but dreamy all around.

If I punch up the contrast it responds, but I really like the retro-soft-smooth contrast. Stopped down it hardens up nicely.

Something special.

With more contrast.

This acts as a 100mm on M43, but when my L mount adapter comes, I expect this, the Minolta 45, possibly the Helios 58mm, the TTArtisan 35 f1.4 (as an APS-C 50mm) and the Lumix 50mm to offer a range of tools, most being twin focal lengths on full frame or APS-C (S35). The adapted lenses can also be used as 2x crops in M43 format.