Well said. I have stopped reading DPreview etc, for all of the sky is falling stuff.
I was going to get the 16-50, but now ihave the 77Ltd, i have a low light prime for those pesky fund raisers we put on for the radio station. Dave On 8/6/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This nonsense cracks me up. People are not satisfied with anything. > No level of performance will ever match the ideal performance that > everyone has in their imaginations now. > > Everyone "knows" that something "better" will come along in six > months. So a brand new, top of the line lens is automatically not the > best thing ... it's something that is already passé, obsolete, and > the hunger for the better one supercedes the value of the current. > That or dim memory/blindness/acceptance has forgiven the flaws of > their favorites from the past so they hang onto old stuff and descry > the continuing loss of quality and value with every new product > introduction. > > It's all bullshit. Being hung up on the perfection of equipment is > sad. It gets in the way of doing photography. > > I'm sure that the brilliant photographs that can be made with the > DA*16-50 lens will never be affected by the fact that it has a bit of > second order curvilinear distortion, or is slightly less sharp at f/4 > than some other lens was. The brilliant photographers who make those > pictures will simply be exploiting what the lens can do and be > avoiding that which it is not best suited for. Just as always. > > I have had no plans to buy the DA*16-50 lens anyway. I'm neither more > nor less inclined to buy it at present ... I have the lenses I like a > lot, that work well for me, and don't need anything else at present. > If I come to need a new lens of this type in coming days, I'll give > it due consideration. > > Meantime, I have a lot of work to get done and I'd better get to work > at it again... :-) > > Godfrey > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
