>> Lately the 28/1.9's distortion has been making me wish I had a >> Pentax 28/3.5K. You can see the distortion in the diverging edges >> of the buildings in JCO's photo.
> while i agree that this lens isnt distortion free, I dont think > this shot in particular reveals that. Where are you noticing > obvious disortion in the shot? I don't know, Paul - I don't see any obvious distortion in the photo. As for the "diverging edges of the buildings", all I see is the perspective effect of using a 28mm wide-angle, rather than a bending of straight lines due to barrel or pincushion distortion. I'm also not claiming that there is no distortion produced by this lens, but I just don't see it (yet) in the photo. By the way, Modern Photography, in its review of this lens, found less than 1% pincushion distortion in this "29.18mm" "f/1.93" (<g>) lens, which I think is really quite good for a wideangle. In any event, since JCO didn't photograph a nice brick wall (since he obviously couldn't be torn away from relaxing at the pool - <g>), I think it would be difficult to see evidence of less than 1% pincushion distortion in his particular test photo. Fred
