Starting Macro - PentaxForums. com My main macro lens is a Tamron SP Adaptall-2 90mm f 2 8 (model 72B): Tamron SP MF MACRO 1:1 (72B) 90mm F2 8 Lens Reviews - Tamron Adaptall Lenses - Pentax Lens Review Database This 1:1 manual-focus lens was introduced in the mid 1990s, so it's not a modern lens
Pentax Lens Disassembly Database - PentaxForums. com This is a great lens in many ways: great optical quality, excellent macro capability, and cheap and commonly available The DAL plastic mount version has the exact same optics, and even has quick shift with the release-button trick!
Sigma APO 300mm F4 - Pentax Forums The IQ, bokeh and abilities to absorb light are no less than those of 400 5 6 APO Macro, which I appreciate very much Compared to my latest addition, Sigma 100-300 F4 APO EX, its images look slightly less sharp wide open - in exchange for more dreamy rendering and retaining noticeably more layers of light as your eyes can observe
KP and a manual focus macro lens - PentaxForums. com I have a KP and a couple of macro lenses (Sigma 50 2 8 manual focus and Tamron 90 2 8 autofocus, both 1:1), even though I don't do that much macro One of my lenses is autofocus, but I use both in manual focus When I shoot macro 99% of the time I am using a tripod, therefore I am also using 2 sec delay, live view, focus peaking, and magnification
Tamron Adaptall (QZ-35M) 35-80mm F2. 8-3. 5 - Pentax Forums The Macro Mode Button allows a ring to be rotated to the Macro setting, whereupon sliding the zoom moves the whole optical assembly forward, acting therefore like an extension ring (the SP 60-300mm 23A and the 35-135mm 40A , for example, are similar, this is a mode tamron used a number of times)
Tamron Adaptall-2 SP (19AH) 70-210mm F3. 5 - Pentax Forums Macro optical performance is exceptional (for a zoom), reaching 1:2 66 life size at the 210mm position " adaptall-2 com Manufactured from 1984 to 1999 the 19AH was the premium "SP" adaptall in the standard 3x zoom TP market
Focus stacking - PentaxForums. com In addition to @mlags's excellent advice, for macro work, start with something with a simple mostly convex shape, i e avoid a lot of intersecting objects partially obscuring each other As for (free of charge) software, I second the recommendation for Picolay, even if the interface takes a moment to get used to
Macro The best macro lens for pentax - Pentax Forums The best Pentax macro lens without a budget is the FA*200 F4 macro lens Follow that by either the D-FA 100 F2 8 WR or the Sigma 180mm F3 5 or the Sigma 70mm F2 8 The cream of the crop, top of the line, would be the FA* 200mm f4 Macro (or A* 200mm f4) which would set you back at least a couple of grand