Marketing description

Now featuring a 7-blade rounded diaphragm, high-grade multi-layer HD coating, and a slick high-class design, this ultra-compact and lightweight wide-angle prime lens is the best travel companion yet. This lens is ideal for group shots, tight interiors, sweeping landscapes, as well as creative 'get-closer-to-your-subject' portraits. It is also equipped with "Quick Shift" Focus System for fast manual focusing in the AF mode, and its unique design incorporates high-grade aluminum construction, available in both black and silver models.

Key selling points

• Light enough to carry anywhere
• PENTAX-original SP (Super Protect)
• Wide-angle with low distortion
• Compact and lightweight design
• High-grade HD coating
• Round diaphragm
• Quick-Shift Focus System
• Extra-low Dispersion (ED) glass and a hybrid aspherical lens element

Product features

• Light enough to carry anywhere
  Light enough to carry anywhere; this extra wide-angel lens is the perfect addition to your prime lens collection. The flower-shaped metal lens hood adds no bulk to the lens, and is always available to minimize flare.
• PENTAX-original SP (Super Protect)
  The PENTAX-original SP (Super Protect) coating repels dust, water and grease to keep your lens clean and your image quality at its peak.
• Wide-angle with low distortion
  Wide-angle equivalent to 23mm in the 35mm format with low distortion, ideal for group shots, tight interiors, sweeping landscapes, as well as creative ‘get-closer-to-your-subject’ portraits.
• Compact and lightweight design
  The extremely compact and lightweight design also allows for the use of 49mm filters as well as circular polarizing filters for landscape photos.
• High-grade HD coating
  High-grade HD coating assures higher light transmittance and lower reflectance than conventional multi-layer coatings. Sharper, clear images free of flare and ghosting, even under adverse lighting conditions and backlight.
• Round diaphragm
  Upgraded with a round diaphragm at a wide aperture for optimal optic performance and gorgeous bokeh effects.
• Quick-Shift Focus System
  The PENTAX-original Quick-Shift Focus System allows instant switching from autofocus to manual focus operation.
• Extra-low Dispersion (ED) glass and a hybrid aspherical lens element
  This lens features Extra-low Dispersion (ED) glass and a hybrid aspherical lens element for exceptional sharpness while minimizing chromatic aberration, ghosting and flaring.