Pentax 40mm f/2.8 Archives

7 August, 2022

5 Digital Frames with the debated Pentax-M 40mm f/2.8 – by Roland Casselbrant

By Roland Casselbrant

The lens I will talk about here has been talked about at 35mmc.com before. At least here by Hamish Gill and here by Ed Lara, but we're in it for the plenty, aren't we? When I st...

25 November, 2019

Pentax-M 40mm f/2.8 and Pentax MX – imperfect, but pocketable!

By Hamish Gill

In my recent Pentax MX review I touched on the fact that I’d only really been shooting it with the 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens. This is a lens that seems to divide opinion a little ...

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