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Pentax DA 15mm Limited lens

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ24909497 ↗
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The Pentax smc DA 15mm F4 ED AL Limited is a wide-angle prime lens for Pentax K-mount, announced by Pentax on March 2, 2009. Along with Pentax's other DA Limited primes, it was replaced in 2013 with an HD-coated version with rounded aperture blades.

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The public source identifies “Pentax DA 15mm Limited lens” as lens model. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pentax, 15mm and Limited.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pentax DA 15mm Limited lens” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.