{"id":6042,"date":"2012-07-02T08:55:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2012-07-02T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:08:04","slug":"pentax-24ew-the-ewwwwww","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=6042","title":{"rendered":"Pentax 24EW (The ewwwwww)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I didn’t\u00a0christen it the ewwwww that came courtesy of Duncan Turner<\/a>.\u00a0 The primary and interesting feature of the 24EW, and what helps\u00a0gives it its name is the 24mm at the wide end of the lens.\u00a0 The EW\u00a0[pronounced \/u\/w\/]\u00a0\u00a0actually stands for Extra Wide but that’s hard to miss on the front anyway. Very few other fixed lens film\u00a0cameras have anything this wide.\u00a0 Released in 2003 it is also one of the last film cameras that Pentax produced as they were already well on the transition to digital.\u00a0 As with\u00a0cake you can’t have it and eat it too and the inedible part here is the distortion that you get from the lens at 24mm, fortunately much of the distortion near the edges is masked by the vignetting (that would be sarcasm)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0 This camera has some great additional features the best of them being exposure compensation in half stops from -3 to +3 EV\u00a0 also it can close focus to 30cm.<\/p>\n\n\t\t