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- Dramatic images
- ED Glass
- PENTAX "Quick Shift Focus System"
- 15-25mm equivalent in 35mm format
- Internal focusing
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
The Pentax interchangeable lens system provides a complete line of high-quality lenses to satisfy your every creative need. Offering a wide range of focal lengths, functions and effects for different formats, Pentax lenses are designed to maximize each camera's capabilities.PRODUCT FEATURES:Metal PENTAX KAF Lens Mount;Equivalent focal length to 15mm-26mm in the 35mm format with ist DSLRs;New water and oil repellant SP (Super Protective) lens coating for easy cleaningExtra-low Dispersion (ED) glass for superior sharpness and color correction;Responsive "Quick-Shift Focus System" allows instant shift from AF to MF;The image circle is designed to match the CCD used in PENTAX digital SLRs.
Product Description
Created exclusively for Pentax digital SLRs, the smc DA fish-eye 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5ED (IF) gives astounding results thanks to it fish-eye construction (180° diagonal angle with 10mm focus): allowing you to zoom using one single lens!
Whether you are shooting in general views or in extreme close ups, the smc DA fish-eye 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5ED (IF) offers excellent optical performance and great functionalities such as, Quick-Shift Focus (a metal mount) or Super Protective (protects against oil or water).
The smc DA fish-eye 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5ED (IF) will give you new photographic wings!
Whether you are shooting in general views or in extreme close ups, the smc DA fish-eye 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5ED (IF) offers excellent optical performance and great functionalities such as, Quick-Shift Focus (a metal mount) or Super Protective (protects against oil or water).
The smc DA fish-eye 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5ED (IF) will give you new photographic wings!
Content:
Compatibility : SLR Pentax (Kaf mount)
Optical : lenses/groups : 10/8
Minimum focusing : 14 cm
Filter diameter : no filter
Included accessories : case
Dimensions : 68 x 71.5 mm
Weight : 320 g
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
I have had this lens for 5 months now and I think it has been my main lens for that time, but IT IS A FISHEYE. Straight lines will be distorted, the optical quality is compromised because IT IS A FISHEYE, so you will see chromatic abberation and some general softening of the image. But you have to zoom in on the image to see this. Anyway, you buy a fisheye for the effect if gives. Search fisheye on flick if you are not sure what results you will get. I love wide, so I love this lens!! Great for 360 degree immersive panoramas (you know those ones where you can pan around a scene). Same as the Tokina 10-17 in case you do not have a Pentax or Samsung DSLR. Interestingly, this will give a full frame on a film or 1:1 sensor camera. You can see the protective 'hood', but if you zoom to about 13mm it is no longer visible and it is still much wider than anything else.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Perhaps I expected too much from this little lens. It's build quality is good, it is compact and quite light.
It has two problems which were enough for me to send it back for a refund. The first is the softness of the images, at any aperture the image is smudgy. Second up is very pronounced purple fringing of highlights.
Overall a poor show.
It has two problems which were enough for me to send it back for a refund. The first is the softness of the images, at any aperture the image is smudgy. Second up is very pronounced purple fringing of highlights.
Overall a poor show.
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46 of 47 people found the following review helpful
Impressive, but watch out for that front element
23 Nov 2006
Sometimes you just need to go to the extreme - in this case it is really wide angle. In my old Canon film-camera days, I had the 15mm 2.8 fisheye which was an even bigger chunk of glass because of its speed.
Now that I have gone to the Pentax K100D camera, I was pleasantly surprised to see this 10-17mm lens was available. I was even happier because unlike the Canon lens, the Pentax is a zoom, so that not every shot has to be the distorted wide angle that you think of when you hear "fisheye". The lens goes out to the equivalent of about 26mm on a 35mm format, which is a very useful focal length as well.
The lens also allows manually tweaking the focus while in the auto-focus mode - something my 2 Sigma lenses warn against.
The only drawbacks to the lens that I see are that you can not mount a filter and the curved front element is exposed (same for the Canon). So, just use a little caution. And, unlike the old Canon, there are no rear filters either. Finally, for those who like to manually adjust the aperture ring - there isn't one. It's all set through the camera :-)
I could go on about the lens, but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so I've posted a few photos in the Amazon collection.
Now that I have gone to the Pentax K100D camera, I was pleasantly surprised to see this 10-17mm lens was available. I was even happier because unlike the Canon lens, the Pentax is a zoom, so that not every shot has to be the distorted wide angle that you think of when you hear "fisheye". The lens goes out to the equivalent of about 26mm on a 35mm format, which is a very useful focal length as well.
The lens also allows manually tweaking the focus while in the auto-focus mode - something my 2 Sigma lenses warn against.
The only drawbacks to the lens that I see are that you can not mount a filter and the curved front element is exposed (same for the Canon). So, just use a little caution. And, unlike the old Canon, there are no rear filters either. Finally, for those who like to manually adjust the aperture ring - there isn't one. It's all set through the camera :-)
I could go on about the lens, but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so I've posted a few photos in the Amazon collection.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Fun Lens to Have
16 Aug 2008
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Have owned this lens since December 2007 and have had a lot of fun with it. At 17mm, it functions like a conventional wide angle lens, but at 10mm it is truly a fish-eye. The flexibility cannot be beat! Image quality is excellent (color rendition and sharpness). It can produce some interesting perpectives once you learn how to exploit its characteristics.
The lens surface extends (bulges out) beyond the front rim of the lens which can expose it more than a conventional lens. However, Pentax claims that it has a special coating which is supposed to resist scratches. I am ultra careful and choose not to test the strenght of the coating!! The lens cap is a slip-on type vs. a clip-on type. The lens is a tad heavy, but solidy built.
The more I use this lens, the more pleased I am that I purchased it.
The lens surface extends (bulges out) beyond the front rim of the lens which can expose it more than a conventional lens. However, Pentax claims that it has a special coating which is supposed to resist scratches. I am ultra careful and choose not to test the strenght of the coating!! The lens cap is a slip-on type vs. a clip-on type. The lens is a tad heavy, but solidy built.
The more I use this lens, the more pleased I am that I purchased it.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Digital Fisheye for Pentax
22 Feb 2007
Every bit as advertised. A most unusual lense. It takes a while getting use to the lack of an apature ring but the lense is everybit worth it. If you are in a small room and need to take in the whole room this is the lense for you. The Lense is as sharp as all of the other pentax lenses that I have and the depth of field is tremendous.
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