I don't buy Sigma lenses due to the problems I've had with Sigma in
the past. The DA12-24 would be my choice of those two, but I
personally prefer the DA14/2.8.
Here's a page with DA14 examples:
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/14mm-examples/
The JPEGs are full resolution and processed with Camera Raw mostly at
its defaults. No additional post processing has been applied. There
is a RAW file, in DNG format, downloadable if you want to fool with
it yourself.
I like this lens a lot. It was the motivation for why I purchased a
DS in the first place, it was the only new lens I bought with the
camera, and it has not disappointed me at all. I use it quite a lot.
Godfrey
On Feb 19, 2006, at 12:42 AM, Jarek Dabrowski wrote:
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
