I guess that answers that...
Lindamood, Mark wrote:
Please allow me to be perfectly clear: there is NO loss of sharpness in the corners, there is NO loss of sharpness near the edges, there is NO vignetting in the corners when using the DA 40mm on both the MZ-S and ZX-5n FILM bodies. Images on both slide and print film are uniformly sharp across the entire frame -- examining slides out of frame, and examining the negatives, not the prints. No loss of nuthin', anywhere. I've run sixteen (16) rolls of film through this lens on my two film bodies. The DA 40 works precisely and exactly like an A-, F-, or FA-series lens permanently set to A, responding correctly to all 4 programs lines of the MZ-S. Change the shutter speed dial and you go to shutter priority operation. Hit the green button and you're back in program. It's about one degree wider than the old 40, contrary to my previous note of an exact match on photo.net, which thread someone refers to below. That's me in my basement, holding the little 30.5mm hood cover. !
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That's a slide scan on my olde, pre-colonial scanner. The lens is gobs sharper
than that. I last week used a better slide scanner at the office to capture my
dear mother to send her a mother's day greeting, and now to demonstrate the
full frame effectiveness of the DA 40. If there is darkening in the corners,
clean your glasses. ;-)
http://members.cox.net/mark.lindamood/Mominmom's%20kitchen025_22.JPG
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