Hin's Photo Corner

I was thinking of using the fisheye lens to show both the stadium along with the fireworks and fisheye lens can do that with the wide angle. But once the fireworks started, they all go up to top over our head position and I couldn't show the relative position of the fireworks from the ground except this photo. Overall, I am very happy with the performance and ease of use from the fish-eye lens. At 17mm, distortion is minimum. And I recall using it from 15mm to 17mm without obvious distortion.




Impressions & Notes

• Again, this is the fun lens that I recommend to others
  
  
• It works great for events, especially outings with kids, it surely adds the fun factor
  
  
• PF/CA is an issue but not an issue for fireworks, purple fringing may help add character to the fireworks.
  
  
• I used it wide open at night and the fisheye lens is charming in sharpness
  
  
• With tripod, I can take decent fireworks in 1/3 and 1/4 seconds. I see others using long shutter but I could only use my tripod with the legs collapsed due to little room in the stadium seating. I would attempt longer shutter next time but I am afraid of Dark Frame Subtraction and inability to turn off NR in high iso setting with K20D
  
  
• Overall, a great and fun lens to recommend to other Pentaxians

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