Zhong Yi Mitakon 85mm F1.2 & Sony FE55mm F1.8ZA

This 85mm lens is amazing at F1.2.  It is so sharp, it boggles the mind.  Great for close up photography of flowers and animals and people, although I have not tried it on people as yet.

The 55mm F1.8 lens is an AF lens and it give amazing results as well for portraiture.  Glad to have bought it for use.

Not regretting the purchase of the 2 lenses and now waiting to get mu hands on the Sony FE28mm F2, although it is not a Zeiss Lens like the 55mm

SOLD A7R AND BOUGHT A7II

Did not like the low light output of the A7R and sold it away and replaced with A7II instead.  Have not tried for low light but have read reviews that it is better.

Being poisoned to get the A7RII instead.  For this camera, I will need to save up like crazy. . . .

SONY A7R + CHINON 50MM F1.4 & FA24-90MM F3.5-4.5

Tried out both lenses today and love the output.  Will be playing with manual lenses more often from now.

Olympus OMD-EM 5 with M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12-50mm F3.5-6.3 EZ & M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 45mm F1.8

Bought the lens before National Day on the 6th of August 2015 and bought the body on the 11th of August 2015.

Then bought the 45mm F1.8 the next day.  Happily shooting and liked the results of the 12-50, but found it too slow so sold it off.

Decided to look around and got the 17mm F1.8 today.

All bought off Clubsnap B&S.

Voigtlander 28mm F2 Ultron Lens

Bought the above to use on my Ricoh GXR.  Will test it out tomorrow as I was too tired to try it out today.  Pretty nice M mount lens that cost a fraction of the Leica’s.

Updates

Collected the K3 + FA*85/1.4 from APD and it was found that the rear lens group was loose.  Thankfully it has been fixed.

The Kipon adapter came in and I am having fun with it with my manual lenses; Chinon 50/1.4, Pentax 85/1.8, Sears 135/2.8 Macro, FA* 85/1.4, FA 43/1.9, FA77/1.8, etc

Collecting the restored VW Beetle tomorrow.  Will post a pic here for memories sake.

Updates for 2015 - So Far

It is now almost half of 2015.  So many things have happened to me during this past few months.  Getting stabbed in the back by a so called buddy in the school and getting a warning such that I loose my PB is not funny.

Will see what I want to do in the coming months.

On the bright side, I bought back a Ricoh GXR with a A12 28mm F2.5 and an M mount and a week later got a VF-2 EVF and another body.  So I now have 2 GXR bodies to play with.

I am waiting for the Kipon K to M mount adapter to arrive so that I can try out my Pentax lenses on the GXR.

Sadly, my Silver K3 is acting up with my FA*85mm F1.4 lens.  On my son's black K3, there is no issue with the lens.

Could it be just that both need to be re calibrated?  Off it goes to the service centre...

Sigma 100-300 F4 Lens

I borrowed this from a friend in the hope of buying it over to do birding, but our friendly Pentax tech and friend told me that there are no more spare parts for this lens unlike the 70-200 F2.8 I bought over from FW.

I will wait for a new version to arrive in SG before I decide on my next move.

Updates on what happened in December 2014

On the 30th of December 2014, I received notice that I would be transferred to PA from SJAB and it would be effective 2 January 2015.

I was upset and asked fro the reason and found out that EY has resigned.

I then asked to stay in SJAB until the end of week 1 - 9 January 2015.

From week 2 I am trying to learn the ropes of running the PA Crew before EY leaves by 31 January 2015.