Hi Tom, I own the Zenitar (it's my second one) and I can say it's a very good performer. I don't know how it compares to Pentax fish-eyes, though. When I first used it in 1997 (on the Z-1p) the results seemed poor, with wash out colors, but it was my fault for not metering correctly (I had mostly FA and A lenses with me and trusted too much the meter of the Z-1p - bought brand new few weeks before - to care for the exposure... shame on me :-(). In 2000 I brought the Zenitar with me in France. The results were astonishing! Brilliant colors, no flare, almost no internal reflections even with the sun in the corner of the frame. The resolution seems really high, too. I have some shots I can send you off list if you wish. Like most Russian lenses, the color rendition is slightly on the warm side, but it goes almost unnoticed. It should come with some screw-in filters (UV, Yellow, Orange and Red). A filter must stay always on the lens (it's part of the optics, the lens cannot focus at infinity without).
Hope this helps. Gianfranco ----- Original Message ----- From: aimcompute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Pentax Discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 9:58 PM Subject: ZENITAR-K 2.8/16 FISH-EYE LENS > Any comments on this lens? Good, bad, mediocre? > > Thanks. > > Tom C. > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
