Pentax HD Pentax-DA Fisheye 10-17mm F3.5-4.5 ED Lens

A versatile and high-performance addition to your photography gear, the HD Pentax-DA Fisheye 10-17mm F3.5-4.5 ED Lens is expertly designed for PENTAX K-mount DSLR cameras. This lens offers a unique zoom range that covers the fisheye to ultra-wide angles, opening up a world of creative possibilities far beyond the human senses. The lens is equipped with a high-grade, multi-layer HD Coating on the optical elements, ensuring high-contrast images with edge-to-edge sharpness. This advanced coating technology effectively minimizes flare and ghost images, even under challenging lighting conditions. The HD Pentax-DA Fisheye lens boasts a redesigned exterior that perfectly complements the latest PENTAX K-mount digital SLR models. The lens hood is removable, adding to its versatility. With an impressive angle of view of 180 degrees at a focal length of 10mm, this lens allows you to capture distinctive landscapes or starry sky pictures, taking full advantage of the unique image distortion that is characteristic of a fisheye lens. The lens also features a minimum focusing distance of 14cm, enabling you to get closer to your subject and enhance the distortion effect for more expressive images. The lens incorporates an Extra-low Dispersion (ED) glass element that effectively compensates for chromatic aberration, delivering extra-clear, high-contrast images. When mounted on a PENTAX DSLR camera body, this zoom lens provides a 180-degree diagonal angle of view in the APS-C format at a focal length of 10mm, delivering eye-catching fisheye images. The angle of view shifts dramatically with a slight change of focal length, allowing you to create visual expressions typical of an ultra-wide-angle lens, such as exaggerated perspective and deformed subjects. The lens features a demountable bayonet hood, enabling you to shoot nearly circular fisheye images and expand your range of photographic expressions. The lens maintains the compact size of its predecessor but features a completely new exterior design, including updated zoom and focus rings, a new model plate design, and an updated DA badge. The lens is also equipped with PENTAX's original "SP Coating" for easy maintenance. This fluorine deposition process makes the lens highly repellent to water and grease, preventing the adhesion of dust, water drops, and oils, and making it easy to wipe away stains, such as fingerprints, from the lens surface. Finally, the Quick-Shift Focus System allows for seamless switching from auto focus (AF) to manual focus (MF). When in-focus using AF, turning the focus ring immediately switches to manual focus, eliminating the need for switching from AF to MF and allowing for smooth focusing. In summary, the HD Pentax-DA Fisheye 10-17mm F3.5-4.5 ED Lens is a high-quality, versatile lens that offers a unique perspective and exceptional image quality, making it a valuable addition to any photographer's kit.