Rating Reviewed by: Jay Hart(Unregistered User)
(Professional)
Review Date January 23, 2001
Overall Rating 5 of 5
Value Rating 5 of 5
Review 2 of 5
Price Paid:
$265.00
from Pentax Warehouse Sale
Summary:
This optic is uncanny. It is owned in the A version, but works well with the focus indicators for careful composition and exposure on the Z, LX and P series cameras. It is the same as the FA version. Great optic! Use a tripod to carefully compose, and a focus screen with grid lines to maintain perspective. This makes the Rocky Mountains jump.
Strengths:
Good for twilight and for foreground dominant compositions. Good color and detail.
Weaknesses:
Much larger than the old f4 M series, which is equally good.
Ok in trueth I use the 20mm A f2.8 version. My understanding is that these lenses are optically identical. It's a fun lens. I use it in a lot of forest shots where I need to push away the trees (prevent crowding). I use this lens also in travel to get indoor shots (watch for that light falloff if you are trying to use a flash) and for cityscapes in Europe. It's a lot of fun. One of my best lenses-surprised it isn't an A*!
Very light for a 20/2.8, very sharp, moderate vignetting, average price (around $550 in New-York). I like that focal, too. For landscapes AND architecture. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.
Its the best 20 I've seen. Its amazingly sharp and very well corrected. Very slight pincushion distortion visible only inf you have straight lines near the edges.
Strengths:
Superb color rendition, tack sharp edge to edge, small size, well corrected
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