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Which Lens for Snow/Skate Photography?


stephen_hayes1

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I have a Pentax K20D and I'm looking at two different wide angle/fisheye lenses.<br><br>

1)Pentax 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5<br>

2)Pentax 14mm f/2.8<br><br>

I want the flexibility of fisheye and wide angle, but is f/3.5-4.5 too slow? I will definitely be using this lens for other

subjects as well, but I'm going to be taking a lot of pictures up on the slopes. Are there any other lenses that I

should be considering? Thanks for your help!

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Stephen, the fisheye will give you much more „drama“ in your picture. If you want to shoot a lot into the sun i would choose

the fisheye too. Sigma is building a faster (and probably better) lens with it's new 10mm F2.8 EX DC Fisheye HSM. Btw,

Photozone reviews the <a href="http://www.photozone.de/pentax/117-pentax-smc-da-14mm-f28-ed-if-review--test-

report">SMC-DA 14mm f/2.8</a> and the <a href="http://www.photozone.de/pentax/132-pentax-smc-da-10-17mm-f35-45-

edif-fisheye-review--test-report">SMC DA 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5</a>. I'm a Nikon-shooter but if i had a Pentax the 14/2.8

would be the first lens i would buy for general photography. But i suspect for the skater/snowboarder crowd a fisheye with

it's built-in „WOW“-effect makes more sense. Hope this helps, have fun, georg.

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Hi Stephen,

 

Advice seems slow on this one, I am not familiar with the Pentax system but in Canon full frame the 16-35 f2.8 is king, ultra wide zooms have been THE lens for several years now along with creative use of wireless flash. A fisheye lens gives you one picture, maybe one shot per magazine, the 16-35 will account for half the images and 70-200 type lenses the majority of the rest. It really depends on the type of shot you want but there is no way, if I only had one lens, that I would buy a fisheye first.

 

The lens speed is not so important for snow boarding so go for the 10-17 zoom.

 

Take care, Scott.

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