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- Limited Edition series Macro lens
- Magnification to 1:1
- Aluminium housing construction
- Built-in retractable lens hood
- Quick-shift Focus System
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
The highest quality PENTAX lenses are offered under the exclusive "Limited Edition" label. The introduction of the smc PENTAX DA 35mm f/2.8 Macro Limited Edition adds precision macro capability to this select category for the first time. The lens offers a completely new lens coating that provides astoundingly pure image quality. Additional characteristics: magnification ration of 1:1, aluminium lens tube and a built-in extendable lens hood.
Product Description
The Macro Limited DA 35mm f/2.8 lens, part of the top-end Limited Edition range, has been specially developed for Pentax SLRs. It has a 9-lens construction in 8 groups and has been designed for taking detailed, close-up shots. Its compact and lightweight casing makes it easy to carry around and offers excellent user comfort.
Its f/2.8 wide aperture captures the maximum amount of might for sharp and precise colours.
Finally, the Macro Limited DA 35mm f/2.8 lens is water- and dust- resistant thanks to an SP coating, so it can be used in all kinds of circumstances.
Content:
Compatibility : For Pentax digital SLR cameras
Optical : lenses/groups : 9 elements in 8 groups
Minimum focusing : 0.139 m
Filter diameter : 49 mm
Included accessories : In-built sun shield
Dimensions : 63 x 46.5 mm
Weight : 215 g
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I wanted a small, fast, AF standard prime to use with my K200D, and I feel I made the right choice. Focusing is fast but very occasionally misses and tries to cycle all the way through the macro focusing range, but it's a minor problem. With newer cameras this will happen less.
The image quality delivered by this lens is simply amazing. It's very, very sharp, even wide open and has fantastic contrast & colour. The depth of field control is useful due to the f/2.8 maximum aperture. Images are vivid and detailed. It's a world apart from the 18-55mm kit lens.
In addition to the image quality, other benefits are the built-in retractable hood, all-metal build quality, full time manual over-ride of the AF, 1:1 macro capability and the small size. 35mm is a perfect focal length for a prime on a camera with an APS-C sensor. This lens is especially great for portraits & landscapes.
Now I'm itching to get the 70mm f/2.4 Limited lens too...
The image quality delivered by this lens is simply amazing. It's very, very sharp, even wide open and has fantastic contrast & colour. The depth of field control is useful due to the f/2.8 maximum aperture. Images are vivid and detailed. It's a world apart from the 18-55mm kit lens.
In addition to the image quality, other benefits are the built-in retractable hood, all-metal build quality, full time manual over-ride of the AF, 1:1 macro capability and the small size. 35mm is a perfect focal length for a prime on a camera with an APS-C sensor. This lens is especially great for portraits & landscapes.
Now I'm itching to get the 70mm f/2.4 Limited lens too...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
This lens is a revelation for me, having recently swapped out my Canon system over to a Pentax K-5 (mainly for budget reasons) and a lens like this is a strong argument for staying in the Pentax camp.
I believe this lens represents extremely good value for money, the first and most obvious thing when you pick it up is the build quality - it's outstanding. There's a real classical zeiss/leica rangefinder lens feel to the lens, it's so far ahead of the plastic kit lenses, you'd be forgiven for thinking it costs over a grand. The action of the manual focus is excellent and well damped, although this lens is hard to manually focus at distance, it's biased towards the macro end. It features a built in, pull out hood, which precludes the use of Polarisers when in use but in practice flare is well handled with or without the hood.
Optically, the lens performs above it's price bracket, but only just: It's a macro, so it's not as fast as other 35mm primes, but it is very sharp from wide open onwards, something you can't say about many lenses. Colour reproduction and contrast are also very good. Background blur is good, but not exceptional, it can be a little busy, rather than super smooth like the best lenses, but it's certainly not bad at all. Focus is fast, less noisy than other Pentax lenses, but can a pain when it hunts, the throw is long, again because of the macro. A limit switch would be nice.
Macro performance is very good, a proper 1:1, although working distance is TINY at that range so you need to be aware of that. I would personally say this is an excellent walkaround lens, especially on bright days. The optics are great, it's light, well built and lets you get in close when you need to. It is not a low light solution, if you treat it as one, you'll be frustrated.
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this lens to others and I can see a Limited lens addiction in the pipeline.
I believe this lens represents extremely good value for money, the first and most obvious thing when you pick it up is the build quality - it's outstanding. There's a real classical zeiss/leica rangefinder lens feel to the lens, it's so far ahead of the plastic kit lenses, you'd be forgiven for thinking it costs over a grand. The action of the manual focus is excellent and well damped, although this lens is hard to manually focus at distance, it's biased towards the macro end. It features a built in, pull out hood, which precludes the use of Polarisers when in use but in practice flare is well handled with or without the hood.
Optically, the lens performs above it's price bracket, but only just: It's a macro, so it's not as fast as other 35mm primes, but it is very sharp from wide open onwards, something you can't say about many lenses. Colour reproduction and contrast are also very good. Background blur is good, but not exceptional, it can be a little busy, rather than super smooth like the best lenses, but it's certainly not bad at all. Focus is fast, less noisy than other Pentax lenses, but can a pain when it hunts, the throw is long, again because of the macro. A limit switch would be nice.
Macro performance is very good, a proper 1:1, although working distance is TINY at that range so you need to be aware of that. I would personally say this is an excellent walkaround lens, especially on bright days. The optics are great, it's light, well built and lets you get in close when you need to. It is not a low light solution, if you treat it as one, you'll be frustrated.
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this lens to others and I can see a Limited lens addiction in the pipeline.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
I got this lens because Michael Johnston (from The Online Photographer) called it a "paragon" of lenses. He's right, it's superb. You don't get optically better lenses. Sharp as all-git-out, and no weaknesses.
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