On Feb 21, 2007, at 3:33 PM, John Whittingham wrote: >> Both the DA14 and the DA12-24 are excellent quality lenses and a >> beautiful match to the DSLRs. They're not even horrendously >> expensive like the Nikon or Canon 14mm lenses are. >> >> I don't know what you don't like about them, particularly as you >> don't seem to have used either one yet. > > Hi Godfrey, point taken, but I've read a lot of reviews. Correct me > if I'm > wrong, but the Tokina ATX 12-24 is essentially the Pentax 12-24? It > is one of > the better performers but still flawed IMHO.
Reviews don't really tell you enough, imo. How can you judge a lens without using it? There's no end to this kind of debate until you obtain a lens and have first hand experience with it. If I didn't think the DA14 was a damn good lens, I'd have sold it and the Pentax *ist DS, gotten out of the system entirely. That's what drove me to Pentax in the first place ... I couldn't get a lens of this focal length with decent quality for my Canon 10D. The Pentax DS plus DA14 cost me just over half what the EF14L alone would have cost and were superior in performance. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
