Features

• 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.
• Upgraded with a round diaphragm at a wide aperture for optimal optic performance and gorgeous bokeh effects.
• Uniquely crafted lens barrel, lens hood and cap with a stand-out shape, made from high-grade aluminum, available in both a classic black and a striking silver.
• The focal length is equivalent to 52.5mm in the 35mm format, useful beyond its macro tasks – it is eminently well suited as a standard lens of outstanding high quality.
• The PENTAX-original SP (Super Protect) coating repels dust, water and grease to keep your lens clean and your image quality at its peak.
• The PENTAX-original Quick-Shift Focus System allows instant switching from autofocus to manual focus operation.
• Developed specifically for PENTAX digital SLR cameras.

Bringing even more pleasure to photography, this stellar macro lens provides one-to-one magnification in a normal focal length for gorgeous life-sized shots of the world’s tiniest details. Ideal for any photographer with a need for a new perspective, this lens incorporates the highest level of sharpness and image rendition in a macro lens. Its high-grade aluminum construction provides the utmost durability and elegant design, now further enhanced with the PENTAX-original High-grade multi-layer HD (High Definition) coating, allowing for significantly higher light transmittance, offering even more clarity for life-like imagery. With a 53.5mm focal length equivalent in 35mm film format, the HD DA 35mm Limited is, of course, useful beyond its macro tasks – it is eminently well suited as a standard lens of outstanding high quality.

The HD PENTAX-DA Limited interchangeable lenses are designed for use with K-mount lens-interchangeable digital cameras. These lenses inherit the distinctive visual description and a premium appearance of the acclaimed PENTAX Limited Lens series, while adding the state-of-the-art HD coating and a round-shaped diaphragm, to deliver even higher digital imaging performance in combination with a K-mount camera body.

Developed based on the Limited Lens series — renowned for the meticulous finish in every detail from the outstanding image rendition to the high-quality, hand-machined aluminum body — these new lenses assure even better optical performance than the original Limited Lens-series models. They are treated with the HD coating, which assures much higher light transmittance than conventional multi-layer coatings to deliver sharp, clear images free of flare and ghost images, even under such demanding conditions as backlight. They also feature a completely round-shaped diaphragm to produce a natural, beautiful bokeh (out-of-focus) effect in the foreground and background.

All lenses are treated with HD coating, a high-grade multi-layer lens coating that assures higher light transmittance and lower reflectance than conventional multi-layer coatings. As the result, they produce sharp, clear images free of flare and ghost images, even under such adverse lighting conditions as backlight.

All lenses feature a completely round-shaped diaphragm to optimize the performance of their distinctive optics. This diaphragm produces a natural, beautiful bokeh (out-of-focus) effect, while minimizing the streaking effect of point light sources.

While inheriting the design concept of the Limited Lens series, these lenses were designed by combining a series of mechanical and numerical evaluations with human assessment of test-shooting samples to assure the ultimate in image reproduction. Their optical design has been optimized for digital photography to deliver sharp, clear images with outstanding contrast, even at the maximum aperture. In addition, their lens barrel, hood and cap are all made of a high-grade aluminum material, hand-machined for perfect proportions and beautiful texture.