Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

Does it or can it fit your camera?

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

I vaguely remember seeing a Starblitz Flash. It seems this lens was made for a long time as I found a sale for a K-mount one one eBay for $29.99. It looks like it is equivalent to a Pentax K-Series or M-Series lens having a 52mm filter diameter. There are obviously no electronic contacts. It would have been made for a manual film camera. It probably would fit and work on a Sears camera as well as Pentax. The K-Mart -- Sears connection for the Starblitz makes sense too.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/314029137352

But what a strange focal length for a Macro lens, 28mm! Really short. That is shorter than a short 35mm Macro lens for a APS-C Digital Camera! On a full frame or film camera a 28mm is a wide-angle lens. I am almost tempted to buy one used and cheap on eBay to see what it does. Since I own Pentax cameras it would not as rapidly prove to be a paperweight. I already have a number of off-brand telephoto lenses. But only one WA, a Vivitar 19mm f/3.8 K-mount lens.

Canisdirus

Used lenses can be a bargain or trash...like anything else.

If shopping in person for used lenses...bring a small bright tight light with you.

In my experience of looking at used lenses...especially the 'off brands'...ppl don't treat them as well.

The person who buys that lens new is already trying to get a shortcut...and they usually treat their gear the very same way.

You can find dog lenses that are very desirable as well...but the hits go up exponentially compared to off brands.

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No "if". Still better spent on pizza. You can give the pizza to a pizza lover and use a phone to photo the very happy pizza lover.

BebuLamar

If you can use it for something other than paper weigh then it's not paper weigh. It's definitely not a bargain as one can't expect to sell that lens for any more that what you paid for it.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Some of you are taking all the fun out of finding good junk, specifically strange suff in charity shops, hockshops, flea markets, and dumpsters.

Like others have alluded to, nowadays, it's hard to find a good restaurant meal for 15 bucks and even if you do, we all know where that ends up! If you find an odd lens and old rickety or rusty camera, at least to can write about on UHH and start a conversation. Most folks are not really interested in what you ate last night! That is, unless you develop food poisoning and have to explain that the the docs inthe ER! If you really overspend on some useless item, in a worst-case scenario, you'll have to explain that to your significant other!

Who knows? If you adapt some weired lens to your current body, you may get some limited usage and be pleasantly suprised-, that's unless the damn thing jams and gets stuck on the body and it's off the the repair shop!

Anyway, if you really want to enjoy a great PIZZA, don't bother with those frozen cardboard and fake cheese ones. Find a good old-fashioned pizzeria that uses fresh ingredients. I shot this and then ate it- YUMMY!

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Frozen is awful 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 I would make the one you so beautifully shot last about five minutes - and no hands used

Ava'sPapa Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

I'd really like to see that Joe! No hands, you say.

russraman Loc: New York City

In New York City you can only get half a pizza pie for $15... and soon they will be baked in an electric oven!

Horseart Loc: Alabama

HOLY Shapiro! I could eat the picture!!!!

jlg1000 Loc: Uruguay / South America

I make a waaay better pizza than that.

jlg1000 Loc: Uruguay / South America

I make pizza every weekend. 100% tradicional napolitan style, like "la mía nonna" did. I have 20+ years practice by now...

None of the depicted pizzas reach my level of yumminess

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I shot the attached WHILE eating it. It was my first shot when I first received an old iphone, and I knew that the very first thing youre spozed to do with it is shoot your food ... so I did.

Yes its inverted. Did I mention its the first thing I shot with it ? Okay, yes, I did. And I discovered one cant use it left handed. Over these few years weve been together, weve really learned to hate each other.

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E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

True enough! Nobody can beat real family recipes. I tried to make stuff like my grandmother but I usually
fail. The problem was, I was a pain in the neccek and grandma would throw me out of the kitchen when she was cooking. Also, she never had to measure anything- a pinch of this and a handful of that! My hands are at least 4 times the size of Grandma's!

I shoot lots of food- commercially. Some of it looks much better than it tastes. As pizza goes, that one was pretty decent but no quite as good as the homemade ones I got to taste in Brooklyn as a kid.

Is the Neopolitan kind made on a thick square crust?

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"Thick square" pizza is referred to in the USA as Sicilian style, yet all of the pizza places where I have eaten it are named after Napoli/Naples. Go figger.