Tanya Love wrote: >Id love to hear your suggestions for the best wide angle lens I can get >my hands on to shoot interiors. I need it to be as fast as possible, >and if it is a zoom, I need constant aperture through-out. Many of the >interiors (babies nurseries) that I am shooting are required to be shot >using only available light, so this is why the faster, the better. >And, able to give the best resolution as possible. > >I will be using it on the K-7. It doesnt have to be a Pentax lens, I >just want good glass, good price and as wide as possible. Wide angle > zooms are ok, although I know that it is rare to find one as optically >good as the prime equivalents. > >I also love to shoot babies/kids faces close up with a wide angle >perspective, so something that would suit this purpose would be great >too. If it had a nice macro function, I wouldnt complain either!
I have the Pentax 12-24 and I expect it would be very good for your purposes. My only complaint about it is lack of close focusing - we nature photography guys like to get down to about 4 inches or so to make a daisy or something loom large over a tiny background landscape - but I think the 12-inch minimum of this lens would probably work for you. I don't think there's any ultra-wide lens that's anywhere near macro. I've heard good reports about the Sigma 10-20mm, which obviously gets you an extra 2mm wider (bigger difference than it sounds - every mm counts at these focal lengths) but I haven't tried that lens myself. >Also, does anyone have the DA Fishe-Eye 10-17mm f3.5-4.5 and if so, >what are your thoughts on it? Big fun. Really big fun. Not a really sharp lens, but much sharper than I expected. Fisheye samples: http://www.robertstech.com/pages/fotoblog/7d703445.htm http://www.robertstech.com/pages/fotoblog/7d804632.htm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
