New wide angle
I feel that a system camera needs to have the capability of at least an 18mm full frame to 400mm+. The + part isn't a problem with digitals but the wide angle part used to be at least. An 18mm-whatever just doesn't cut it for me. See: http://www.sigmaphoto.com/Html/12-24.htm Available for Pentax sometime this year. Warren
Re: New wide angle
Wow, this also seems to be a full-frame lens, so it is the shortest wideangle ever for a 35mm SLR. 122 degrees... Up to now, it was the old 13mm f/5.6 Nikkor at 118 degrees... I know, the Cosina rangefinder shooters already have this, but for an SLR...!!! Any information on the price? Pricey, I suppose ;-) Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I feel that a system camera needs to have the capability of at least an 18mm full frame to 400mm+. The + part isn't a problem with digitals but the wide angle part used to be at least. An 18mm-whatever just doesn't cut it for me. See: http://www.sigmaphoto.com/Html/12-24.htm Available for Pentax sometime this year. Warren
Re: New wide angle
I heard on some forum that it would be 850 Euro but that's probably just speculations. /Paul From: Thomas Stach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New wide angle Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:40:41 +0200 Wow, this also seems to be a full-frame lens, so it is the shortest wideangle ever for a 35mm SLR. 122 degrees... Up to now, it was the old 13mm f/5.6 Nikkor at 118 degrees... I know, the Cosina rangefinder shooters already have this, but for an SLR...!!! Any information on the price? Pricey, I suppose ;-) Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I feel that a system camera needs to have the capability of at least an 18mm full frame to 400mm+. The + part isn't a problem with digitals but the wide angle part used to be at least. An 18mm-whatever just doesn't cut it for me. See: http://www.sigmaphoto.com/Html/12-24.htm Available for Pentax sometime this year. Warren _ Instant message in style with MSN Messenger 6.0. Download it now FREE! http://msnmessenger-download.com
RE: New wide angle
On 6 Oct 2003 at 16:38, J. C. O'Connell wrote: are you sure the lens is for full frame 35mm? No one has ever even produced a prime let alone a zoom for SLRs that goes that wide. I'd love to see some optical tests on this baby :-) Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
Re: New wide angle
- Original Message - From: J. C. O'Connell Subject: RE: New wide angle are you sure the lens is for full frame 35mm? No one has ever even produced a prime let alone a zoom for SLRs that goes that wide. It had better be, or the Minolta AF people are going to be unhappyG William Robb
The new wide angle zoom lens
Dear all, According to letsgodigital.nl, the new wide angle zoom lens when mounting on the D-SLR is a 28-54mm zoom. Translating to 135 format, it is only a 18.7-36mm zoom, which is very similar to the existing FA20-35/4AL. Therefore, there are two possibilities for the new lens: it is either an ultra cheap FAJ plastic toy with variable aperture of around f3.5-5.6, or it is a luxury FA* f2.8 constant aperture lens. Just my guess only. Regards, Henry Chu 26/2/2003 26/2 _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
RE: The new wide angle zoom lens
The already stated an FAJ 18-35 via our spies. I really need something more than this, but the DSLR looks fantastic to me! Only thing I am not sure about is the use of CCD rather than CMOS...? -Original Message- From: Iren Henry Chu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 February 2003 15:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The new wide angle zoom lens Dear all, According to letsgodigital.nl, the new wide angle zoom lens when mounting on the D-SLR is a 28-54mm zoom. Translating to 135 format, it is only a 18.7-36mm zoom, which is very similar to the existing FA20-35/4AL. Therefore, there are two possibilities for the new lens: it is either an ultra cheap FAJ plastic toy with variable aperture of around f3.5-5.6, or it is a luxury FA* f2.8 constant aperture lens. Just my guess only. Regards, Henry Chu 26/2/2003 26/2 _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
RE: The new wide angle zoom lens
From Pentax press release: Along with the *ist D, PENTAX announces an exciting wide angle lens for 35mm AF SLR cameras, the smc PENTAX-FA J Zoom 18-35mm F4-5.6 AL. -Original Message- From: Iren Henry Chu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 February 2003 15:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The new wide angle zoom lens Dear all, According to letsgodigital.nl, the new wide angle zoom lens when mounting on the D-SLR is a 28-54mm zoom. Translating to 135 format, it is only a 18.7-36mm zoom, which is very similar to the existing FA20-35/4AL. Therefore, there are two possibilities for the new lens: it is either an ultra cheap FAJ plastic toy with variable aperture of around f3.5-5.6, or it is a luxury FA* f2.8 constant aperture lens. Just my guess only. Regards, Henry Chu 26/2/2003 26/2 _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
Re: The new wide angle zoom lens
Iren Henry Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to letsgodigital.nl, the new wide angle zoom lens when mounting on the D-SLR is a 28-54mm zoom. Translating to 135 format, it is only a 18.7-36mm zoom, which is very similar to the existing FA20-35/4AL. Therefore, there are two possibilities for the new lens: it is either an ultra cheap FAJ plastic toy with variable aperture of around f3.5-5.6, or it is a luxury FA* f2.8 constant aperture lens. I doubt it's an FAJ lens. They've been lacking something in this category for a long time and they need to be able to sell it to as many Pentax users as possible. I'd settle for a regular FA lens with a variable f2.8-4.0 aperture as long as the optical quality is good. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
