My own experience has been that lenses with fairly low resolution, but good edge sharpness and low chromatic aberration levels work great on he the *ist, even if they were mediocre with film. I put my Tokina ATX 400 f5.6 in that category - the bird shots I take with it on the *ist D are great. With Velvia or E100S, I never felt like it delivered the detail. The A* 400 f2.8, even with a telecovnerter, was a better setup (for film.).
As with film, the A* 200 f4 is my workhorse with the *ist-D, and as expected it delivers. Having said that, I used my FA 28-70 f4 quite a bit with tie *ist-D this summer, and have no complaints re the results - but I have always felt that I was lucky to have a good sample of that lens.
- MCC
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: Manual Focus Pentax Glass on istD
Perhaps my standards are low, but I'm quite pleased with the performance of all my lenses on the *istD. I even like the results I've achieved witht the much maligned FA 80-320. My manual focus lenses, which are mostly k series glass, have produced images that please me greatly. I've also had good feedback from the magazine I shoot for and the stock houses. All of these clients had been receiving 6x7 transparencies and/or scans from me. They've had nothing but good things to say about the digital images that I've been providing for the last year. I really can't fault any of my lenses on the *istD.
Paul
