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.
Hood is not mounted on 70mm
Hood is mounted on the 70mm limited
Both lenses extended to the shortest focus distance
at 0.7 meters
Pancake small in the 70mm limited
Beautiful 77mm in silver color
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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you should keep them both and rent them out. Start a paypall account and then people can rent the lenses you have that way you can keep them both. I recently bought a 55 1.8 MK but i had a 50 2. AK lens. They are both sharp at f4 but the 1.8 has incredible blur. Since they only cost me 40 dollars I will keep them both. I think if pentax over goes full frame the 77 will double in price.
Frank, thx so much for the inputs. That is a wonderful suggestion. I am likely keeping them all together as I find it a great pairing lens to have 21, 40, 70 as a trio in traveling. Not that I can't substitute the 70mm with 77mm but I love the pancake trio. But one thought is to replace the 70mm with 15mm so that I have limited to cover the wider end. I want them all and enjoy them with overlap and different mix among them. Damn! I am old enough to be stupid.
Hin,
I am so happy to see you blogging again.
I have missed your tech articles very, very much. Thanks for posting!
You should keep both; the 77 as your walk about, the 70 as your travel. In the end you take wonderful images it's the LBA that's annoying....lol
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