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I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical about getting a fisheye. I'd always thought it was one of those one-trick ponies. But maybe that shows my age. I was rather wrong to dismiss this and I'm glad I took a chance on it. So, why use it? Obviously it's great for super wide angle shots. Not only that, but this lens seems to have a very nice and consistent stereographic projection (look it up, and compare to rectilinear (straight lines preserved) or classic fisheye (area preserved). In short, angles tend to be more natural, and it has less fishiness than some. You get tremendous depth of field, and depending on the subject the distortion isn't all that noticeable. These days with software it's also possible to correct a lot of the distortion after the fact. Obviously not as good as getting it right in the camera, but sometimes that's impossible without spending a LOT more on something like a tilt-shift lens, etc. Finally, the fishy effect isn't seen as so odd these days. I chalk that up to action cams, which use super wide angles bordering on fisheyes. So for action shots this doesn't look that strange anymore even without correction. And when used for video it has some of the same benefits such a lens affords in action cams. It opens things up to some other interesting compositional possibilities. Like shooting into the sun; since the field of the sky is so huge the sun occupies a very small part of it, hence can become part of the composition even without lots of filtering or bracketing. And the sky colors can be very interesting as well. Not to mention night shots of say the milky way. I use this on Pentax, and it works great. Rather heavy, but par for the course for wide angles. Easy to focus since it's like everything from 5' to infinity is in focus in most all light anyway. No aberrations, smooth focusing action. And quite sharp. Infinity was maybe a tad off, but it doesn't matter much.Read full review
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There's no better Fisheye for the price for Pentax DSLR users. Excellent built quality and well damped smooth focusing ring. But most of all for Pentax users - this lens has the "A" setting where it works in Program, Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority modes. It is a manual focus lens but with such ultra wide angle of view - you just set the aperture to f/8.0 and the lens at 1 meter - everything will be in sharp focus. Definitely recommend and must have lens for capturing the world around you in a different but creative perspective.
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Was looking for a creative look and found this at what was an unbelievable price. Item arrived very quick, looked brand new out of the box with everything included. Used it and it takes remarkable pictures.
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Sharp and amazing. Get one
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