Digital Image Studio wrote: > > On 06/08/07, Jack Davis <jdavisf8 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > Apertures used notwithstanding, to my eye the 16~50 image is somewhat > > sharper than either the 16~45 or 28~70 and virtually equal to the 31. > > I know, an absolutely meaningless observation. > > They appear to be pretty close at f4, the lack of CA in the 16-50 > image really adds to the apparent sharpness, my only criticism of the > new DA* lens is the apparent halo or light spill from the bright > areas into the dark at f2.8 though by f4 it's virtually gone.
Rob, I was a little surprised to see the same thing you did. It looks like "veiling glare" to me. I associate it with older single-coated lenses. We all know that Pentax has wonderful lens coating technology; maybe there is some internal reflection in the inner lens barrel that only occurs when the aperture is wide open? --Mark -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
