We don't know what Pentax is thinking. If they really have a different take on
what a good lens is, a more holistic approach instead of a 'scientific' one,
based on measured sharpness and contrast, then they are certainly not good at
'selling' it.
I am certain many Pentax users would be interesed to know what their engineers have been thinking as well. There was a pdf file which was talking about the FA43 & FA77, but unfortunately, it was available in Japanese only. Is the international market so worthless to them they won't even translate something that might sell their products?
A person may also just not telling the truth - half of what is written on the
internet is wrong.
And most people have the tendency to praise whatever they had.
o We don't know if and how much sample variation there is. I personally have not
been able to show much of this when comparing lenses of the same series but a)
I do not have a testing laboratory and b) it is certainly possible the the
particular lens that the owner claims to be "less good" is a lens that deviates
fom the rest.
I don't know much about optical sample variation, but their QC is bad, as far as I can tell. And I am talking about * & Limited lenses too, and that frustrates me a lot.
Regards, Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
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