Boris, > The FAJ 18-35 sample I have is very sharp on wide end, even reasonably > sharp fully open. You may have a bad sample. If you wish I can send you > some full size JPEGS from my *istD shot with this lens.
yes please, that would be very useful as I said I have nothing to compare my shots with. You can use this address but please keep the attachment size within reasonable limits. But this is not just about sharpness - while images produced by fixed 50s are "refined" (smooth and sharp at the same time), images from zoom are "rough" - yes, they may be "apparently" sharp, but IMHO this is not real sharpness (just higher contrast). Also about all possible aberrations are present - from color fringing through geometric distortions to softening towards the edges. As you said, I may have a bad sample but even if my sample is fine it's probably unfair to compare such basic zoom with specimens of some of the best glass available regardless of price. "Too bad" I've started with the latter... BTW I've tried to develop these pictures using ACR in PSCS2 and with contrast set to the minimum they now look much better to me. Nobel Prize to the inventors of the RAW image processing! :-) > Having said that of course I cannot dispute the fact that 50 mm lenses > give better image quality. indeed. Cheers, Peter -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
