On Jul 19, 2006, at 6:23 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Lens porn: > http://www.robertstech.com/temp/IMGP6706.jpg
Just look at how obese that 31mm lens looks compared to even its 43 and 77 mm siblings, never mind the DA21. Pornographic indeed. ]'-) I had the 31 and didn't like it much although it was a fine performer. The 77 is delightful, the 43 (and 40...) does not interest me as the focal length is neither here nor there for the 16x24 format. The DA21 piques my interest but I really really want a compact 28mm f/2... sigh. Perhaps another reason that the DA Limiteds are being designed for compactness and quality rather than speed is that the DSLRs they are designed to work with produce so much cleaner results at ISO 400 to 1600 than the film SLRs that the prior series was designed to complement. That consideration would certainly shift my design priorities if I were the engineering lead. The fact that they're incorporating the QuickShift focusing feature is one of the biggest reasons for me to be interested in the 21 and 70 mm ... the maximum aperture difference is mostly irrelevant. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
