Re: FA24/2.0 on Ds - example

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

My friend in Gloucester uses the FA24/2 AL quite a lot and likes it  
very much. I was using my A24/2.8 a similar amount. Seems the 24/2  
reports I've read are quite variable, but Richard's work with that  
lens seems virtually indistinguishable from my work with the A24/2.8.  
Another friend bought and used the FA24/2 for a few weeks and sold it  
as unsatisfactory. (All of this with D and DS bodies.) Hard to figure  
what to make of the variability in the 24/2, it's certainly not an  
inexpensive lens.

Your two photos show rather large differences between the corner/edge  
quality at f/2.8. What do you see at more normally used wide angle  
apertures, like f/5.6-f/11?

Godfrey