bump - will post pics this wkd if i get the chance to.
might have more for sale as well, just don't seem to use the camera much

In excellent condition, boxed with caps and hood.

£200 / 280 euros including insured delivery

thanks - very true, you are talking about the fish eye 10-17? i love this lens, so much fun and often very good results, although the subject needs to be quite centered.

i am keeping the 15mm for now, as you said sharpness is not the most important thing!

now i need to find an excuse to go outside and shoot!

the main difference is indeed the size, the 17-50mm is amazing, i've never tried the 12-24mm although was tempted, but too bulky and pricey. 15mm is a good compromise!
i look forward to seeing some tests, i have no doubt the sigma at 17mm will be much sharper

yes and no, i dont have the exif data in front of me but for instance the two pics above are shot probably around 1/125sec or 1/250sec, for 15mm focal lens I would expect that despite the small wind it would lock any movement, also if that was the case in the leaves in the middle would also be blurry - in the first picture there is a big difference between the leaves in the middle which appear sharp and the ones on the far right of the image, comparing the ones that are at the same distance from the camera.

i realise the website re-sizes the pic so you can't see the full resolution :/

thanks for your comments, sadly i sold the 10-20mm so cant compare at 15mm like for like, but from memory it felt like sharper across the frame, even at f5.6.

I will also try to stop it down to f11 (which i rarely do but will need to break this habit) as it seems to be the sweet spot for this lens, i did compare it to the sigma 20mm f1.8 closed down to f8, and the latter was noticeably sharper, although it's 20mm so as you said the distance makes a difference.

i guess i will hold onto it for a little while as it's nice to use (tiny/light), and 15mm is a nice focal lens (i think 13mm would be the best though).

here are two shots,. it's not bad in the center - the ones that are bad everywhere are the ones taking trees from far away, i.e assuming it didnt focus right.
this is all acceptable of course, but nothing amazing

thanks - i will try to post some pics -

not very impressed by most of the pics on the forum, it's quite similar to my experience = filled foreground look good, but the landscapes look soft for most.

hello,
i got the 15mm limited last month, and i've just come back from a wkd in barcelona where i tried it a little. I had high expectations as it's my first limited lens. Of course i have read every review on the pentax forum (9.26 score), and i am aware it needs to be stopped down to f8 or even f11 to get sharpness and even then it has mixed reviews on sharpness. i am not someone who is craving for sharpness, but i have to say it does look very soft, even in the middle.

i do love its size, and the colours/contrast are very good, it needs very little post processing, I also tested the flare which is indeed very well controlled. but i found that the close up shots are usually very good, but the landscape with little foreground are super soft across the frame. i am used to the sigma 10-20mm and it is clearly in much higher league.

i tried to shoot everything i could at f8+, i didnt do some proper "testing", but overall i am not that impressed, which brings 3 questions:

- am I too new at this and will learn how to use it? i didnt play with the AF points.. I use the newly acquired K-S2
- is it possible the lens is either front/back focusing when the focus is far away (i.e landscape), the focus definitely looks fine on close objects
- is it not the right lens for me? i was hoping to use it for city breaks and landscape as it's easy to carry around
- is my copy soft?

thanks

really nice...! i come back from a wkd in barcelona and didnt really manage to take pictures, i felt like a tourist somehow (which i was)