On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 05:39:20PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: > The widest prime Pentax makes is the 14mm f2.8 the widest zoom is > the 12-24mm f4.0. I believe Sigma's 10-20mm is available in K mount > Tamron also makes a 10-20mm that isn't available in K mount though > it's an open secret that Pentax has a joint development deal with > them and Pentax doesn't market a version themselves. Samyang has a > 10mm f2.8 lens that was in development last year that may or may not > someday be a. released and b. be available in K mount, (maybe it's > already been released). All those are rectilinear lenses. For > Fisheye lenses Pentax has a 10-17 and Sigma has an 8mm. Those are > the ones I can remember off the top of my head.
I have the Samyang 8mm. But, it's not a "closeup" lens. It's closest focus is about a foot, though with depth of field, it's effectively a lot closer than that. I was wondering about close focus wide angle lenses. For example my 20/1.8 comes in to 1:2 levels of magnification. > > On 5/12/2013 4:50 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >I got a bit silly today photographing under a stump with my 8mm. > >I'm having way too much fun with that lens, I'm afraid. > > > >It seems that it could be a lot of fun to have an ultrawide > >(12mm or so on aps) closeup lens. My sigma 20 would be close to that > >on full frame, but doesn't have quite the DOF to get close enough. > > > >What options are available for doing such things, other than stopping > >my fisheye down to f20 and just taking what I get? > > > > > -- > There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive > failure, and those that will. > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
