Hello,
I am currently planning to ruin my funds and go superwide with my DS.
The choice is very limited, actually two lenses, SMC-DA 12-24/4 and
Sigma 10-20/4-5.6 are available on the market (I don't want DA 10-17
Fisheye, at least I don't want it now :>). The big advantages of Pentax
are SMC coating, 24mm, and constant f4 aperture. Sigma goes wider, is
darker (5.6), but much cheaper... So, it'time now to check the picture
quality :).
I found interesting comparison of superwide lenses (for Nikon, but Sigma
is here):
http://www.nikonians.org/html/resources/nikon_articles/nikkor/af/wide_angles_shootout/index.html
I am impressed by Sigma's sharpness at the frame edge:
http://www.nikonians.org/html/resources/nikon_articles/nikkor/af/wide_angles_shootout/chromatic_aberration.html
As far as I know some of PDMLers have DA 12-24 - my question is, if they
can share some RAW (pef or dng) files, so I can judge them by myself.
If so, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - one ~10Mb file
per email should be OK.
Thanks in advance
Jerry
