On Apr 25, 2007, at 1:40 AM, mike wilson wrote: > Suprisingly, the Zenitar 16mm/f2.8 is one of the cheapest lenses > available and is also very good. You just need to be aware that > individual samples can vary in quality, so you need to buy one that > you can try first or go to a decent dealer. On 35mm, it's a > fisheye but this is reduced noticably when used on a DSLR. It's a > manual focus, non-A lens, so you need to set the custom function > allowing use of the aperture ring, use M mode and press the +/- > button before each shot.
I found that this iens is indeed very good and very inexpensive, but to get the best results you need to stop it down to f/4.5-5.6 and be very careful of flare. i get tired of the FE effect pretty fast. So while it was fun to use now and then, I sold it later to someone else who wanted to experiment with it. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

