At 22:40 29.1.2001 +0800, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I always bring along with my Pentax FA20/f2.8 for taking landscape
>photographs. I satified with the results very much. Now, I would like to
>buy another ultra-wide angle lens of either 15mm or 17mm, preferably an
>automatic and fixed-focus lens. Does anyone have any suggestions or
>recommendations for me?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Chi-Wai
You might consider this heretical, but have you thought of a specialised
rig: Cosina's Bessa L (non-slr body) with their 15mm rectilinar lens +
dedicated finder, it should run $-wise perhaps even quite less than a new A
15/3.5 from pentax. I read reviews about it telling it's a very fine lens,
also would be propably very flare prone and much, much smaller than the
pentax 15/3.5. Of course, it's worth trying it out yourself, at least in
the shops, or renting. You might not like having to use non-slr finder and
scale focusing. OTOH, the lens is in M39, so usable on Leica LTM bodies if
you have some and save money off the Bessa L. And they introduced a 12mm
rectilinear lens in M39 too!
It's just a suggestion to look at non-slr options too. I don't have any
_actual_ experience with this lens and camera, so I am only offering
suggestion to another option for you to investigate ;)
Fr.
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