Pentax 16-45mm f/4.0 SMC PDA ED AL Zoom Lens: Compatible with Pentax and Samsung Digital SLR Cameras Review

I LOVE this lens. This is the FIRST DA lens and the design is annoying because it flares out at the short end of the zoom. ODD, but this lens has an amazing sharpness of over 4.5. It also works on ALL PENTAX DSLRs. This is a great glass at an affordable price. Buyer Warning: Be sure to purchase a lens hood with your lens. Lens hoods for these lenses can cost as much as $60. I bought my lens used and there was no mention of a lens hood in the description or photos, so I bought a used lens for…

This is a great lens for all-round shooting, be it snapshots, panoramas or portraits. A fixed aperture increases the consistency of camera performance across its range of technical capabilities. The 16mm end of the range is great for shooting in tight spaces when you need a wide angle of view, while the 45mm end of the range gives you a modest zoom if you're zooming in on subjects a little or removing unwanted areas from your subject need to remove composition. A reliable performer that…

Who else makes such cool lenses besides Pentax?>? I've had my eye on this lens for a long time, but after reading negative reviews I gave it up. The Generation X dealer had one for a killer price, so I had to try it. Firstly, this is not a lightweight lens, it resembles a tank. The plastic used is very high quality. The included lens hood is a nice thing, very high quality. From what I've read, you can use this lens for close-up photography, and it's true. This morning I got a beautiful…

In the Pentax range, the DA* 16-50 is one of the most desirable lenses - it's weatherproof and has a quirky, almost silent inner workings focus motor. It also costs twice as much as this lens, and this cool motor often fails. This 16-45 lens is well built despite being mostly plastic - it's good quality and fairly durable. Of course it's NOT weatherproof so don't take it with you in a downpour, but it has served me well outdoors and is quite durable. The pictures are excellent, HA is small…

When I ordered my Pentax K5, I ordered a 16-45mm lens instead of the standard 18-55mm kit lens. Everything looked fine the first time I used it, but each time I got better results both indoors and outdoors. I recently used it for some sea and landscape shots during a photo club tour. Others on the trip had very impressive, high quality Nikon and Canon lenses, but with my reasonably priced Pentax 16-45mm lens, I was just minding my own business and shooting frame by frame in manual and AP modes…

I bought this lens mainly because of the great reviews on this site. That's pretty much all the top reviews say. To be more precise, optically it just means: excellent. My bean counting is twofold and possibly unjustified. First, the lens isn't built like the best lenses - too much plastic! Again, the lens costs around $250, making it incredibly good value for this glass quality. (Maybe we just have to get used to all that plastic. I remember the first time I picked up a Pentax DSLR (2004)…

As this was my first DSLR which I bought along with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG macro telephoto zoom for Pentax and Samsung DSLRs I was able to for a while don't spend money on lenses. But it's about time I upgraded my gear with quality glass. My first consideration was a telephoto lens, but I also needed a simple, good barrel lens that could work. And my search led to this lens. I don't like landscapes yet and feel like I can't waste my time and energy traveling to places. But a lens in the…

I think this lens will become a Pentax classic. There's nothing very sexy about that. It uses an old Pentax screwdriver-in-slot autofocus (unlike their new HSM in-lens), its maximum aperture is just f/4, and its zoom range ends at an odd point, 45mm (equivalent to 67.5mm on a Pentax -DSLR). - Slightly less than the traditional portrait length. It lacks the build quality of top-of-the-line Pentax DA* lenses. It is not weatherproof. But at this price it's a gem. The build is decent, and by using…

I've been using this lens for almost a year and have taken hundreds of photos with it. I usually have it on K10D with a circular polarizer. There are many pros and some cons: Pros: 1) It's significantly lighter and smaller than you would expect from a constant f4 lens, given that it's designed for DSLRs. You can leave it on the camera as a "regular" or "road" lens for walking. 2) Image quality is excellent from center to corners, even at f4. I have an 18-55 kit lens and the difference in image…

As some pentaxists wrote - for birding (photo hunting) you want more, it is treated by buying a converter - relatives are a little expensive, Tamron, Kenko are our salvation. Now I understand that the 1,4x converter is the most for it - it will be 420mm and the picture is still more interesting (despite the drop in aperture ratio) than the Tokina 400mm f5.6 fix is ​​allowed. If you can find at least 40-50 Definitely recommend - you won't regret it! The question of the budget as they say)…

The margin of aperture and sharpness is large, you can easily use a teleconverter (I use pentax 1.7x). Aperture and sharpness of course falls, but the output image remains at least significantly above average. because used to taking pictures with single frames in a row, instead of burst shooting - a strange situation periodically comes across: when autofocus in such a series jumps spontaneously - suppose 10 single frames were taken in 5-8 seconds, the first 4 focus as it should be, then the…