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Seeing as you haven't expressed any preferences for focal length and style of photography, I'll recommend a few that are all excellent performers at reasonable prices, but they're from all over the map.
SMC Pentax-M 20/4, very small, very sharp
SMC Pentax 28/2, relatively big and expensive, "Hollywood North", more very sharp
SMC Pentax 28/3.5, small, very sharp
SMC Pentax-FA 50/2.8 Macro, kind of clunky manual focus, awesome image quality (IQ)
SMC Pentax 85/1.8, sort of small, fast and sharp, very nice bokeh
SMC Pentax-A 100/2.8 macro, excellent manual focus, awesome IQ
SMC Pentax 135/2.5, sort of small, fast and sharp, very nice bokeh
SMC Pentax-M 135/3.5, very small, very sharp
SMC Pentax-M* 300/4, smallest 300/4, excellent IQ
Here's some useful Pentax K links.
Bojidar Dimitrov's Pentax K-mount site: http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/
Reviews:
- Stan Halpin (links at top left), http://stans-photography.info/
- Pentax primes, http://www.jcolwell.ca/Pentax/ref-Alex-primes.pdf
- Pentax zooms, http://www.jcolwell.ca/Pentax/ref-Alex-zooms.pdf
- 3rd party primes, http://www.jcolwell.ca/Pentax/ref-Alex-3rd-party-primes.pdf
Yoshihiko Takinami's Pentax lens tests: http://www.takinami.com/yoshihiko/photo/
Adam and Ole Oest, Pentax K-Mount Lens Series Explained http://www.mosphotos.com/PentaxLensesExplained.html
[leverectomy effect on price] https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1207193/1#11508363
Pentax aperture leverectomy https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/937895/0#8881087
Pentax to EOS alt lens questions, https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/718836/0&year=2008#6498441
Altering Pentax K Mount to Canon Eos 5D https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/574010
Pentax K and M42 http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00ExzY
You can check used lens prices in the Lens Price Database,
Lens$db, http://tinyurl.com/jcolwell-lensdb
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