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Walk around lens

Started Jun 2, 2012 | Discussions thread
DrewE Senior Member • Posts: 2,053
Re: Walk around lens

The Peleng 8mm is quite different from the Samyang 8mm, and decidedly inferior for what you want. The Peleng is a full-frame circular fisheye, and ends up leaving black corners on an APS-C DSLR. It's also quite prone to flare and not all that sharp.

The only AF fisheye lenses I'm aware of for Pentax are the Pentax 10-17 and the Sigma 4.5mm, 10mm, and 15mm lenses. The 4.5mm is a circular fisheye and quite spendy; the rest all sell for around $600-$650 new. Realistically, it's not that much of a chore to focus a fisheye lens. The depth of field is enormous. For many uses, you could just leave it preset somewhere around the hyperfocal distance all the time.

Edit: Wanted to add that the Sigma 4.5mm and 10mm lenses are HSM lenses, and so can not autofocus on your camera.
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