Excellent sharpness, fast, rugged, and relatively inexpensive lens. Fantastic colors.

Not very common when produced, and hard to find today. Most people opt for the faster f/1.4 version which was still in production as of January 2009.

Excellent sharpness, fast, rugged, and relatively inexpensive lens. You get a LOT for your money with the Pentax FA 50mm f/1.7 lens. It is sharper than the f/1.4 version up to f/2 and has a more subdued bokeh which renders the out of focus areas like a Monet masterpiece. The 1.4 produces more exciting backgrounds, but it's a matter of personal taste.

Fantastic colors are one of the strong points of this lens too.

Some people like the F series version of this lens ever more, but the FA is my favorite in auotfocus.

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FA 50mm f/1.4
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built like a tank, accurate

obviously its fully manual (but thats fine)

The perfect basic lens. Lasts forever. My lens is from the early 1980's and works perfect now.

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