> > From: Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/02/26 Mon AM 05:24:23 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Ah ... a new lens > > Godfrey, I do enjoy our conversation about this lens. I've just clicked > on some button (I am still quite a kludge in LR 1.0 that I downloaded > for a trial) and the statistics of which lenses I used how many times > showed. > > So, for roughly 9,000 images I shot with *istD and K10D the distribution > is as follows: > > 77 lim - 1079 > 43 lim - 607 > 31 lim - 579 > Tamron 28-75/2.8 - 791
You shot a lot of pictures with no lens. Or was it lenses that do not transmit information? > > I am fascinated, 'cause I never thought of my shooting habits in these > terms... > > Anyway, it appears that limited lenses get their limited use ;-). > > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > Here's a rather extreme demonstration of flare with the FA31: > > > > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/FA31-flare.jpg > > Extreme indeed. > > > A good lens hood would likely eliminate it for the DSLR, if you could > > fit a good lens hood with that fixed hood. Grr. > > I totally agree. > > > For me, the 43 Limited is going to replace the 35/2 and 50/1.4 ... it > > slots in between the 28 and 70 perfectly. The kit I've assembled now > > is very complete, for my purposes: DA14, DA21, FA28, FA43, DA70 and > > the DA50-200. All (except the 14) very compact and light, just the > > right FoV coverage, very high image quality throughout. The graph of > > FoV vs FL is pretty nice: > > > > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/FoVs-Pentax-DSLR.jpg > > This is what 43 limited did to me. I sold 35/2.8 and basically > deprecated 50/1.7. It is there mostly because of sentimental value. > After all, FA 50/1.7 was my first prime lens that taught me great many > things about photography. > > > I still use the FA20-35 too ... it's such a good wide-normal zoom for > > when I want to carry just one lens. > > For me it is Tamron 28-75/2.8. But I hear what you're saying ;-). > > Boris > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
