On 3 Jan 2005 at 1:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Beautiful shot. The foreground detail is great. I've been wondering if I > should > get the 14/2.8 or wait for a 15/3.5. This is certainly strong evidence in > favor > of the latter. Paul
Thanks Paul, it's a great piece of coast line, IOW it's hard to make a mess of photographically :-) I'm really pleased with the performance of the A15/3.5 even wide open and all the images I've seen from the DA14 haven't convinced me that it has any advantage beyond size and weight. The following two crops are 1:1 from the file straight out of the PS CS RAW convertor (4096x2734px), crop1 is the detail in the background right to the the right edge of the frame and the second is a crop in the bottom LH corner. http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP8081crop1.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP8081crop2.jpg The geometric correction I do is to negate the slight barrel and edge moustache distortion inherent in the lens (the samples above are before this step but are still quite good) Cheers, 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
