these lenses are not really "superb" or "better" lenses in terms of overall image quality capability, the DA lenses are actually worse I would venture to say, they just work better on the limited size APS format that's all. If you had a full frame camera that matched what the full frame lenses can do and were designed for, you would reverse which ones you are calling superb and which ones you are calling not performing as well. I dont think its fair or show's much understanding to describe them that way when you are using DA lenses optimized for APS on APS with FF lenses which are optimized for FF but not using them FF and are only using them on APS. Sure there is no Pentax FF DSLR camera at this point but dont mistakenly blame the FF lenses for not perfoming well on APS, blame pentax for the lack of a FF DSLR body that would allow them to outperform the best DA lenses.
jco -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:02 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: NO FS this Friday? On Feb 7, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > It must be nice to be able to spend large sums of money to replace > perfectly function lenses for a marginal increase in performance and > functionality. Mandated deprication (read: loss of aperture coupler) > aside, obtaining 95% of the optical performance for 10% of the expense > sounds like a winning proposition to me. That is why I shoot pre-AF > lenses.... I would rather get 10x the lenses producing 95% the > performance of newer varieties. It's not a matter of 'being able to spend large sums of money'. I depend upon these tools to produce my work and make my living. I want the best tools that exploit *all* the features of the body which I paid for. When I started with Pentax, I knew little about the line and bought a bunch of older lenses, all in pretty good condition, inexpensively. I used them for a while to sort out what I wanted for the kit, and sold them all at a fair price, which turned out to make a small profit. I took that money and bought the new lenses which I found did the job for my work. I only use five or six lenses total, and mostly just three. I rarely hang on to equipment I don't actually need. I'd rather have three superb lenses producing the best possible performance than thirty old lenses which don't perform quite as well. G -- 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
