Up for sale is a nice, serviced example of the Classic 3rd party  fast aperture prime lens in Pentax K mount, the Sears MC 50mm f/1.4.

This lens, built by Ricoh and rebadged for sale with Sears-branded cameras (also Ricohs)  is an excellent performer, giving great depth of field control and rendering, with excellent sharpness stopped down.
Nice vintage condition with moderate exterior wear, minor filter ring bumping (filters still mount), and excellent mechanics. Front coating has a couple of faint cleaning marks  glass is otherwise free of scratches/haze/fungus. Note: prior to cleaning, this lens had a minor fungal infection that was cleaned, leaving some very faint coating staining that can be seen if you look closely at just the right angle. in testing, this has no effect whatsover on the pictures. All traces of fungus have been removed in the CLA described below.

Nice vintage condition with moderate exterior wear, minor filter ring bumping (filters still mount), and excellent mechanics.  Glass is otherwise free of scratches/haze/fungus. Note: prior to cleaning, this lens had a minor fungal infection that was cleaned, leaving some very faint coating staining that can be seen if you look closely at just the right angle. in testing, this has no effect whatsover on the pictures. All traces of fungus have been removed in the CLA described below.

This lens has been completely disassembled and CLAed (Cleaned/Lubed/Adjusted), with cleaning of individual lens elements and mechanical components, aperture cleaning, and total helical cleaning/relube for like-new performance!

If you have any questions about whether this lens is adaptable to your camera system, please contact me before purchase.

Digital mount compatibility chart

Mount

Adaptable?

Glassless Infinity?

Notes

Canon EF DSLR

Y

Y*

* Some lenses require minor modification for use with Full Frame Canon cameras.

Nikon F DSLR

Y

N


Pentax K DSLR

NATIVE

NATIVE

Green button/manual operation on DSLR

Sony A DSLR

Y

N


Panasonic/Olympus 4/3 DSLR

Y

Y


Canon EOS M Mirrorless

Y

Y


Canon EOS R Mirrorless

Y

Y


Fuji X Mirrorless

Y

Y


Leica/Panasonic/Sigma L

Y

Y


Panasonic/Olympus m4/3

Y

Y


Nikon 1 Mirrorless

Y

Y


Nikon Z Mirrrorless

Y

Y


Pentax Q Mirrorless

Y

Y



CLA FAQs

Q: Why buy a CLAed lens?

Put quite simply, lenses get dirty over time. Many used vintage sold lenses here on eBay are described as “mint condition,” typically meaning they are free of obvious optical flaws like haze or fungus and have a clean-appearing exterior. However, opening them up tells a quite different story. While these lenses may appear tightly built, they nearly all use open designs, which allows substantial amounts of dust, dirt, and grit to enter the lens, where it settles into delicate precision components, adversely affecting the mechanical properties of the lens and leading to increased wear. Furthermore, even in unused samples, lubricants tend to degrade over time, leading to degraded focus action as grease dries out, or slow blades and soiled optics as oil migrates within the lens.

Q: What  services do you perform on the lens before sale?

With the lens disassembled, I perform a full CLA (Clean Lube Adjust). This entails cleaning out any internal and external soiling, cleaning aperture blades of grease that can slowing, re-lubing the focus helical, and adjusting all components for tightness and accuracy. Where there is extensive dust or internal lens soiling, I will disassemble lens cells and clean off surfaces; however, it is my general philosophy to keep lens elements in their factory positions in assembled cells when at all possible to ensure optimum performance.

Q: DUST? What do you mean DUST?

A: All vintage lenses have dust in them. In fact, they had dust in them when they were brand new from the factory! This is because prior to the advent of very modern sealed designs, lenses were not put together in a clean room environment, and the natural static charge of the glass tends to attract dust particles. Coupled with the open designs used in these lenses, it is virtually impossible to find any vintage lens without some degree of dust particles visible when you look closely through the lens. All of my CLA lenses have at minimum the exterior and internal cell surfaces wiped with a dust-free, lab-grade optical tissue and then blown off with an air bulb prior to reassembly and

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