Hello
Please remind that my test is not reliable. (I do not own 2 Millions
FrenchFrancs tools to mesure it, but each time CdI test a lens and even the
TRade disagree the result, when trade's engineers come to CdI resort, to
test by their own, you know the result it quite the same)
Even if I prefer to see as a religion (from your point of view) I prefer to
talk about good tool. It is like a scale you can use for comparing lens...
Now if the test reveals some trouble, they will try my own 85mm f/:1.4...
See you
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From: "Pål Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: mardi 10 avril 2001 18:14
Subject: Re: Direct from Chasseur d'Images
> Clover wrote:
>
> > By the way you demonstrate me something, being a pentaxist fan do not
make
> > you smarter.
> > May be you prefer to stay in your own opinion, that is a choice I can
> > understand.
> > This is like bible, you may or not trust the reliable facts inside. But
if
> > you come with the intention of not believing , you will never
understand.
>
>
> I'm glad you said that this is about beliefs and its apparent that for you
this is religion. You ask people to blindly believe whats published in CDI
and you apparently do it in spite that your own test contradicts CDI's
tests. Now thats belief!
> I believe in my own experience with lenses. In fact, I bought that five
star tested CDI lens. I expected stellar performance. In fact, the result
was so far off any five star mark that I promptly assumed that my lens was
faulty. I sent it with complaints to a poor Pentax repair man who measured
it at every means and shot test rolls and compared it with other lenses of
the same kind. Mine was found perfect and optical quality was
indistinguishable from other lenses of its kind. So much for CDI tests. I
guess I should accept that my not so sharp slides was really great and that
this must be hallucination on my part. I should blindly believe in CDI and
disregard my own eyes.
> BTW I found exactly the same light fall off at the cornesr you did. Also
the same less than sharp performance. Strange for a lens thats as good as
they come according to CDI. Why don't you stop asking people to blindly
believe. Why not look at the facts. I'm certainly convinced that you won't
find any users of the A* 85/1.4, A* 135/1.8 or A* 300/2.8 that would rate it
at "3" on a scale from 3-5. This is compared to any other lens.
> I'm not saying that anyone should believe ME or anyone else. Just that
they should believe their own result and don't blindly follow magazine test
because they rarely are accurate. However, my experience is that among
Pentax users with firsthand experience from lenses, there isn't much
disagreement or controversy. People mostly agree on lenses and dincrepancies
is at best minor - theres a remarkable degree of consensus. And in spite of
what that CDI guy implies, theres absolutely no blind Pentax following here.
Both lenses and cameras get bashed regularly when they deserve it (and
sometimes when they don't).
>
>
> > The fact that they answer in a such anger only show how much they trust
> > their tests because of their experience. As you feel hurt when someone
hits
> > your sons or daughters.
>
>
> I have no doubt that they perform their test in a reliable and repeatable
manner and that the test itself its trustworthy - nobody accuse them of
falsifying tests. But that is not what this is about. The point is how this
test translate into meaningful information about real life use.
>
> Pål
>
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