I'm yet to be convinced that the Pentax DA lens line is real quality glass like the FA and older Pentax primes. They strike me as being cheap, light, and plastic. I have not read or seen any real scientific lens tests on them. I have not heard anything other than anecdotal subjective opinions that are more likely gushing adoration of the Pentax brand than anything else.
Nothing's ever as good as it gets! :-) > >With the advent of super wides to cover the hole left by 1.5x crop >factor, its not much of an issue to me any longer. The 12-24 is an >amazing lens. The only remaining problem is noise due to smaller photo >site sizes. If Pentax has done a good job managing this in the K10D, >there is not a whole lot more that the FF is going to offer for the >considerable premium it would require. I think the K10D has the >potential to be about as good as it gets for an APS sized camera. > >rg > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
