Photodo is/was no joke. It was run with Hasselblad personnel and that company�s MTF equipment - I suppose the company did not approve of it in the end. The English magazine Practical Photography used their results a lot one time, though. But not knowing how they weighted the results adds a measure of uncertainty. But some of the much debated Photodo results like: which is best, the Pentax 28-200 of the original Tamron version of same, were verified by other tests - the Tamron is better. All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http:\\www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:27 PM Subject: Re: FA* 80-200/2.8 discontinued? > "Nenad Djurdjevic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Quite right: Does one stop faster really make it worth paying 10 times more > >money and putting up with 4 times the weight? For example the difference > >between the FA28-70f4 and the FA28-70f2.8 is only one stop (the difference > >between setting the ISO from 200 to 400 on the *istD) and the difference > >optically is apparently minimal (3.3 and 3.5 according to www.photodo.com) > > Photodo is a joke. > > -- > Mark Roberts > Photography and writing > www.robertstech.com >
