UWA needed, any ideas?

For various reasons I need a UWA for my K20, soon to be K5.
Have the 12 - 24, but need to go wider, not fisheye, or corrected fisheye in software.
Aperture is not important and Manual focus is OK.
The important bits are good image quality; does not have to be stellar, and as wide as possible.
Happy to get new or secondhand.
Any suggestions ?

Davex.

There's only one choice really, unless you want to go fisheye... Sigma 8-16mm. Good value at SRS at the moment, £375 IIRC. It has reviewed very positively. The 10-20mm is another option but obviously it's not as wide.

Something like the DA10-16mm fisheye will cram an even larger field of view in than a 'rectilinear' lens, but obviously the distortion might not be suitable. De-fishing is possible but you end up cropping the image anyway and who wants all that PP work and image degradation. [Edit - sorry you did mention you didn't want fisheye anyway!]

there aren't many. all the

What Pentaxophile said, 8-16 for 375 from SRS. I didn't go for it cause when I tried it it seemed a little soft on my K-5 but it was the first day I had the camera so I put it down as user error. Ended up with a 10-20 from Cameraworld for 298 mainly cause I have seen brilliant pics from the lens and it had those extra 4mm on the long end making it that much more versatile.

Have looked, but cannot find at less than £559

Unless you know better will have to order on Saturday.

Davex.

Mifsuds Link

Thanks Colin,
Ordering tomorrow

They might all be gone by tomorrow ! ! !

They are now, just got the last one

Whoa! I'm glad I pounced on it while it was still £375.00 on SRS. It's back up to £549.00 now!

I'm pleased I picked mine up from Mifsuds.