I have to disagree with you here Rob. The 16-45 has CA problems worse than this that I've seen, so it doesn't surprise me, especially since this lens is 14mm, and that alone is a difficult thing to accomplish... I don't think it's superb, but viewing it at 50% I have to say it looks quite good. I honestly think the resolution of the lens is beyond the capability of the istD's sensor.... The CA is tiny, extraordinarily tiny. I've seen much worse examples of CA, particularly of the FA 24mm lens. For a 14mm wide-angle in this price range, I think these examples show it to be a capable, though not extraordinary performer. Maybe you are trying to get Pentax to make some last minute quality upgrades by complaining loudly, I don't know. I'm just being honest. The pictures weren't amazingly good, but then again, the lens is 14mm's, and it's a 2.8, and it's going to debut at less than 700 dollars. The A 15mm is about double that, and has problems of its own, so you tell me which lens is the better bang for the buck.
By the way, everyone knows that in camera sharpening even on the highest setting does practically nothing. All the image settings in camera make very slight changes actually, and the sharpness is the most slight of them all. -Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 9:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samples from DA14/2.8! On 8 Jun 2004 at 14:59, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: > on 08.06.04 14:49, Rob Studdert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Considering it's a dedicated digital only lens I'm quite surprised that the > > chromatic aberrations are still not great at the edges and both images were > > shot at f8. > Well, they are not that bad. And I must say that from what I've seen DA > 16-45 has some CAs too (slightly bigger even than FA 24-90). On the other > side both lenses seems to be nicely sharp even in the corners. Herein lies the key to our differences in the perception of what's sharp and what's not I guess. Did you notice that all the images were made with the contrast on hard, the saturation high and the sharpening on hard? Even discounting the CA they are dreadful examples IMHO. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
