Thast's easy. Poor lenses give poor results. Excellent lenes give excellent results. This is not alwaqsy true - nut most of the time, it is.
Some lenses are more prone to Chromatic Aberration (purple fringes) than others, especially with a digital sensor. I guess wideangles more than others. But I'm not shure. A lens designed for film will not always work well with a digie. Whether the lens is AF or MF is not important at all. Manual lenses can produce brilliant results on a digital camera. Pre "A" lenes requires stoped down metering with Pentax DSLR's, but will otherwise work fine. So go for A, F, FA, FA-J and DA lenses. Because of the "crop factor" (APS-C format) you'll need more wideangles, since a 28mm gives an AOV like a 42mm on a 35mm camera. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 21. februar 2005 16:45 Til: [email protected] Emne: Manual Focus Pentax Glass on istD The time is getting closer for me to make a decision about getting a DSLR, but more information is needed. There have been some comments on the list to the effect that some manual focus Pentax lenses don't produce very good results when used with the istD(s). A little more information is needed. Which lenses are giving poor results? In what way are the results poor? When using a particular lens, are the problems only in certain circumstances, or across the board. I've seen some awful looking results with some longer lenses (Paul's bird shots), but they seemed to be relegated to backlit scenes. So, any comments on the quality of images with various manual lenses would be appreciated. Reasonably sized pics (sections of larger images) might be helpful as well. Thanks! Shel
