I'd have to agree with Dario, I have had very sharp pictures out of my DA 16-45. In fact, I have had better images overall with it than I did my FA*24/2 on the *istD.
Maybe you could better describe exactly how you went about doing the test. There could be some issues that we could help with. -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, May 12, 2005, 2:23:24 PM, you wrote: DB> Hmmm... looks like the DA 16-45 was out of focus (at least when set to DB> 40mm), don't you think? I never got shots that soft with it. DB> Dario DB> ----- Original Message ----- DB> From: "Johannes Schwab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DB> To: <[email protected]> DB> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:24 PM DB> Subject: LittleTest: DA-16-45 vs. DA-40 and M-28 >> Hi PDML, >> >> after having bought a new DA-40 Pancake, I thought to compare it with my >> DA-16-45. Also I picked an M-28 an did the same @ 28mm. The results are >> to find here: >> http://www.im-auftrag-des-herrn-unterwegs.de/pentax/test2/ >> It's a 2.2MB Page which you can save completely on your harddisk to have >> a relaxed examination of the pics... >> >> All shots tripod used, Pre-Mirror, three 100%-Crops form the left, >> middle and right part of the pics. Each shot wit f4 and f8. >> >> Can anyone explain the quite bad results of the 16-45? >> >> Any other comments? >> >> Greets, >> Johannes >>
