On 4/23/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those addicted to lens tests, > > http://www.photozone.de/8Reviews/#pentax > > has now started testing Pentax lenses. Right now they've got only the > FA50/1.4 and DA18-55/3.5-5.6 up, but it looks like they're going to > do a fair sampling of the rest. > > Disclaimer: I'm not a fan of these kinds of tests as I feel they > often give people false impressions of the usefulness of a lens, but > I do find them interesting now and then. Photozone.de's test are much > more sensible than the nonsense promulgated as tests by > www.photodo.com, IMO, or what we read in magazines like Popular > Photography... > > My fire suit is on and sealed so don't bother flaming... ;-)
Being that I have that particular lens on my *istD (and have yet to load the firmware to allow me to use my MF lenses), I was interested to see what they said about the DA 18-55/f3.5-5.6, and my brief experience with it is pretty much corroborated by this test. Soft at the edges at 18 mm, a fair bit of barrel distortion at 18mm, less noticeable pincushion distortion at 55 mm, well constructed, solid feel. Nothing spectacular, but it's nice to know that my sample seems typical. Great value. At least it was for me. ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
