Pentax-FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited Sample Photos, Real-world Use, and Specs | Round Glass Review

The Pentax 77mm f/1.8 FA Limited is a lens that every Pentax user should consider. This lens is one of the marquis lenses in the Pentax portfolio and the image quality on these holds up well. As of this video’s recording, this lens was introduced twenty-four years ago with a slight update in 2021 to introduce new coatings. Other than the coatings update, the 2021 and later version of this lens is the same as the version used in this video. Not a lot of camera gear reaches the two-decade mark for production. Even less reaches that mark and then keeps being made with a relatively incremental update. That simple statement ought to tell you all you need to know about the 77mm FA Limited: This lens is so good that no reason exists to provide an improvement. Sometimes people just get things right – a baseball connects well and lands outside the park, a rocket takes off from and then lands again on a ship in the ocean, or a marbled wagyu ribeye comes off the cast iron with a beautiful crust and a warm, pink middle. Sometimes we people do things well. The 77mm FA Limited is that home run, that landed rocket ship, and that wagyu ribeye served just hot enough to melt foie gras. Pentax has released, now, four full-frame Limited lenses. That’s four amazing reasons to be in the Pentax ecosystem. But, if I’m honest, the 77mm alone is really the only reason that you need. Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @davidhancock   David Hancock's Amazon Author Page with Links to Select Camera Manual eBooks: https://www.amazon.com/David-Hancock/... Video Index: 0:00 - Intro 0:11 - Pentax-FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited Round Glass Review 1:34 - Pentax-FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited Specifications 2:16 - Pentax-FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited Tips & Tricks 3:09 - Pentax-FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited Lens Diagram 3:55 - Pentax-FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited Video Use 5:43 - Pentax-FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited Strengths & Weaknesses 8:06- Pentax-FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited Narrative Review References: https://lens-db.com/smc-pentax-fa-77m... My Instagram:   / davidhancock   "Suffer City Blues" by Suffer City and "Late Night Call" by Stefan Carlen used under active license from Epidemic Sound at the time of this video's upload.