Small, light, beautifully made, extremely sharp. This is just about my favorite lens on my K20D. As others have said it's the ideal length for portraits, and the widest aperture is for the most part large enough to easily throw the background out of focus.
Like most of the pancake lenses, the bokeh is not as smooth as the equivalent focal length full-size lens, but it's not objectionable by any means, and can vary quite a bit depending on the distance from the subject to the background.
The detail this lens can pull out with the K20D is just astonishing. Yes, the closest you can focus is not that close compared to a full size lens, but if you've got 12MP+ sensor it won't matter, because you can just crop to your heart's content.
Like the other DA Limited lenses I have (the 21 and the 35 macro), the color balance is a little on the cool side, with highly contrasty and saturated colors. The lens isn't adding saturation of course, it's just letting it all through. And it's not adding contrast, but it just captures as wide a range as your sensor will allow, with all the gradations in between. I have not had any issues with lens flare.
The pull-out hood is neat, and personally I like the press-on cap, though others don't. With the hood and cap attached the length does grow maybe 50% beyond what you see in the picture here, but if using the lens "naked" then it is small and unobtrusive, perfect for candids.Get more detail about Pentax 70mm f/2.4 DA Limited Lens for Pentax and Samsung Digital SLR Cameras.
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