Pentax 21mm F/3.2 AL Limited Lens for Pentax Digital SLR Cameras
Details
- Availability:
- Usually ships in 1-2 business days
- List Price:
- $549.95
- Our Price:
- $409.95
- Savings:
- 25%
- Average Customer Rating:
- 5.0 out of 5
- Manufacturer:
- Pentax
- Release Date:
- 2006-08-01
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- List Price:
- $549.95
- Our Price:
- $409.95
Features
- Digital SLR-exclusive design
- Ultra-thin, super-lightweight design
- Limited lens-series quality for distinctive visual description and a premium appearance
- Exceptional high contrast, high resolution optics with minimal aberrations
- SP coating to protect the lens against water and grease
Description
With newly developed, high-performance optics, this new lens measures only one inch (25 millimeters long) and weighs a mere 4.9 ounces (140 grams). Mounted on a PENTAX digital SLR camera body, the lens protrudes very little from the camera's front panel, making it an ideal choice for carry-everywhere, instantaneous snapshot photography. This versatile angle of view produces natural images with a moderate perspective and an expanded depth of field (or a wide in-focus area), making it ideal for many different types of subjects and occasions, including snapshots, landscape, travel photos, and architecture. The DA 21mm incorporates a hybrid aspherical lens in its eighth optical element to effectively compensate for a variety of aberrations, which cause adverse effects on overall image quality. In order to assure high-quality image reproduction over the entire focusing range, it also features a floating mechanism, which is designed to adjust the degree of aberration compensation in relation to the focusing distance.
Spotlight customer reviews
Great walkaround lens!
[ Posted: 2008-07-25 ]
Lens is extremely light and of highest build quality and has an equivalent 32.5mm focal length when used on a APS-C sensor.
great carry around lense
[ Posted: 2008-06-27 ]
This is the perfect lense for walking around and grabbing shots. Easy small and the quality is great. If my main purpose isn't to take pictures but I want to have my camera with me or if I am trying to be more inconspicuous it's the one to have.
AMAZING Lens!
[ Posted: 2008-06-15 ]
I just bought this lens for my Pentax K10D and it is truly stellar. I love to shoot wide angle landscapes and this lens has such clarity and absolutely no flaws that I can find so far. I have not had to use denoising software on a picture I've taken with it yet. It is well worth the price you will pay for it, and I have no doubt that it will be the "prime" lens affixed to my camera most of the time.
Great Lens
[ Posted: 2008-02-09 ]
I love this lens. The focal length is directly in the "sweet spot" for street photography, indoors, landscapes and even aerial photos. It focuses amazingly close for dramatic macro-like effects, and when you combine this with a small aperture you can get a very wide depth-of-field, as well. Overall, a very well-made "stealth" lens that is a versatile must-have!
moderate wide-angle -- to go
[ Posted: 2008-01-16 ]
Without getting into the optical qualities in detail, I can only say that I find the drawing and color properties pleasing. Focus is fast, and the build quality is excellent.
Combined with the Pentax K10D, this is my sketchpad -- the kit I carry when I don't carry much.