This lens has rear element coating damage.

I shot with it out in the Kansas Flinthills 10 years ago, camera mounted to a Pentax Spotmatic body, and was disappointed with the amount of milky flare in the images.
The lens went into retirement until today.

I did a little cleaning with alcohol on the rear glass surface, but do not think it helped much.
It was a bright sunny morning with lots of white snow and ice on the ground, and I thought it would be good conditions for a re-test.
So I used a screwmount-to-K-Mount adapter ring and mounted the lens to my Pentax ist d Digital SLR body.

Results below. After a little tweaking in software, I thought some of the images were not so bad after all. The lens delivered a pleasant enough look for me to decide that the lens is not a total loss.

Lens is very solid and heavy, with "preset" style aperture rings. Focus is smooth, and accurate. I shot in Av aperture priority mode, first wide open at f/3.5, then stopped down to about f/11. The f/11 setting gave noticeably better results, but needed exposure adjustment in the software, even though shutter speed was about 1/500 to 1/750 with asa set to 400.
Everything was hand held. Lens is heavy enough to stabilize the whole rig through mass inertia.

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All images are Copyright 2013 E.J.Kowalski.