Hin's Photo Corner

Now I am torn with two outstanding lens that are only used infrequently. I wish I am a photog who can justify keeping both. They are precious prime lens for portraits.
For best value with cheaper cost, the 70mm is a no brain-er to get. If you are tight in budget and that you have the K-x, get the 70mm as f/2.4 is plenty to work with the higher ISO in K-x. If you have the K20D/K7D and that you wants the best in color, get the 77mm. Sharpness to me are outstanding in both of them. I have yet to use more to tell one over the other. My impressions on differentiation on color between the two. In terms of color and contrast, the 77mm wins and it has that magical color rendition in both outdoor and indoor. AF is better in the 70mm and the quick shift focus in the 70mm is a handy plus over the 77mm especially in tricky scene needing manual control. AF in 70mm is noticeably faster with the 70mm.

When it comes to further trimming of my LBA overlap, I will likely keep the 77mm as my copy is from Japan but I digress with the thought in owning all the pancakes from Pentax as that is a unique set of small primes to use. Not that the 77mmm limited is big but the 70mm is really small like the 21mm prime. It is not that noticeable when the hood is mounted on the 70mm. When the hood on 70mm is not mounted, it shows like half the height of the 77mm.


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My older son had a man to man chat with me two nights ago and we discussed what we would do with the first $100 advertising revenue from Google AdSense, I ponder for a moment and asked him where he would like me to take him out for celebration -- a dinner or something. And he immediately asked me when I would make it to $2000. And I was so embarrassed to tell him that in the current rate of how my blog pages are going, that would only happen in 20 years. And he is so cute in following up with me that he thinks $100 is a lot of money and we should celebrate it wholeheartedly for the $0.01 sum of money accumulated from the $$$ empire behind AdSense.

And my younger son is just as cute. He keeps non-stop saying 'Oooooh Man' with me and he probably picks it up from me every time I login to my AdSense account.