Forum Member Registered: September, 2017 Posts: 71 | | Review Date: November 17, 2019 | Recommended | Price: $250.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Very good value for the price | | Cons: | Manual focus and the body stickyness | | Sharpness: 9
Aberrations: 8
Bokeh: 8
Handling: 8
Value: 9
Camera Used: Pentax K5
New Or Used: Used
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I love this lens, its sharp its handy to focus and opens up to 3.5 which helps also for indoors.
Can only verify what has been written about this lens.
Additionally if you get it, do not use this weird cap, its glue is getting all over the body and
ruined my lens from outside. Luckily no harm on the handling and optics.
Enjoy if you can (full frame should be awesome)
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Forum Member Registered: August, 2018 Posts: 72 | | Review Date: August 31, 2018 | Recommended | Price: $300.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Goog manufacturing | | Cons: | A flare factory | | Sharpness: 8
Aberrations: 9
Bokeh: 5
Handling: 7
Value: 8
Camera Used: K-x
New Or Used: Used
Autofocus: 1
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A full frame lens, but if you 've the sun in target, it's finish for you, you see immediatly fog on your viewfinder.
Very specific lense.
1 point for autofocus... it's a manual lense.
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Inactive Account Registered: October, 2011 Location: London, UK. Posts: 19 | | Review Date: October 24, 2011 | Recommended | Price: $134.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Low cost, sharp at centre of frame, virtually zero fisheye distortion, very short MFD, well made. | | Cons: | Can suffer from coma and low contrast when shooting into the Sun. | | Sharpness: 9
Aberrations: 9
Bokeh: 3
Handling: 7
Value: 10
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Length (without front and rear caps): 80mm. Diameter: 81mm. Weight: About 475 grams. Number of Iris blades: 6. Max and min f-stops: f3.5-f22. Minimum focus distance (MFD): Between 50-75mm.
This lens offers a lot of value for money. In fact its probably the cheapest and widest, fully rectalinear, full frame (FF) prime available on the used market...On crop format DSLR's, fisheye distortion is so low that its not even noticable!
I have'nt tested it on a FF DSLR so its possible that there might be some noticable fisheye distortion on FF cameras, at least at the extreme edges of frame.
It has a permanently built-in petal hood, but its too shallow to stop all stray light hitting the bulbous, protruding front element. On crop format, contrast is OK across the frame but with its large and exposed front element it is sensitive to the direction of the sun...Shoot into the sun and veiling coma can become a problem, noticably reducing the contrast right across the frame. Shooting with the Sun behind you and adding some extra contrast in post processing is a good solution.
Sharpness is very good at centre of frame, tailing off slightly towards the extreme edges of frame.
Some CA can be noticable at the extreme edges of frame, with high contrast subjects, but across most of the frame its is well controlled and not noticable at all. Normally the CA takes the form of slight red/purple fringing on the left of high contrast objects, like tree branches, and blue to the right. The maximum width of the CA is only a few pixels though so its easy to remove in post processing.
Colours are slightly warm with this lens, but otherwise look quite natural.
Its minimum focus distance is around 2-3 inches from subject, where even with its inherrantly deep DOF, some subject isolation is possible and semi macro shots are possible. It has a six blade Iris, with positive click stops at half stop intervals.
Its lenscap comes in two pieces...A cylindrical collar, approximately 25mm deep, that slides over the petal hood and a conventional 72mm lenscap which clips into the hole at the front of the collar...Together they offer good protection of the whole of the front of the lens.
If your looking for a reasonably good UWA lens for very little outlay then I'd recommend you take a serious look at this lens.
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