Looks like this lens should become available on the 22nd for about
50,000 Yen.
PCWatch have a page with photo here – http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/
cda/lens/2005/12/01/2806.html
Excite translation:
Pentax puts interchangeable lens "smc PENTAX-DA FISH-EYE 10-17mm
F3.5-4.5 ED(IF)" for a digital single lens reflex camera made of this
company on the market on the 22nd. The shop expectation price is an
expectation of 50,000-yen level middle though the price is an open
price.
Lens only for digital single lens reflex made of this company
equipped with taking picture element of APS-C size. It becomes the
fish-eye lens of 180 degrees in the diagonal picture corner at the
focal length 10mm time. As for the optical system, the development
design was done in cooperation with Tokinar Ltd..
The mount is Pentax K AF mount (metallic). It is composed of eight
crowd ten pieces including ED (low special decentralization) glass.
In the squeezing shuttlecock, six pieces and the small apertures are
F32.
The shortest taking a picture distance is 0.14m(the lens promise
0.025m) by the whole area of the zoom. The inner focus is adopted.
The maximum taking a picture magnification is 0.23?0.39 time.
"Quick-Shift Focus System" of possible MF is adopted without the
switch operation in AF combination Aseat. Moreover, the SP(Super
Protect) coating of new development is given in front of the lens.
The SP coating provides with water-repellent and Batiabra by the one
that a special fluorine compound was deposited. It is assumed that
dirt can be not attached, and the oil dirt be washed off easily.
In the size of the main body, it is 68×71.5mm(maximum diameter ×
length), and weight is 320g. Food is a built-in type, doesn't have
the filter installation frame, and the lens cap become the special
covering type of the aluminum material.
- smc PENTAX-DA FISH-EYE 10-17mm Bertil Holmberg
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