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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Hillary K. Grigonis

Pentax FA 15-30mm f/2.8 ED SDM WR review: A fun but flawed ultra-wide

The Pentax-D FA 15-30mm f/2.8 ED SD WR on a gray wood background.

There’s a saying that age is just a number – and with some photographers still using old film cameras in the digital era, that can certainly be true for photography gear. But what about lenses? The Pentax FA 15-30mm f/2.8 ED SDM WR was introduced in 2016, making the lens about eight years old now, but it remains one of the few full-frame K-mount options with a wide zoom that doesn’t step into fisheye territory.

Pentax is one of the few brands still actively making DSLRs, so in my experience with the K-1 Mark II, I wanted to see what the brand’s ultra-wide, ultra-bright zoom could do.

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