Rob wrote: >On 07/08/07, Mark Erickson <mark at westerickson.net> wrote: >> 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? > >I don't know what the cause of it is but the same effect can be >observed when shooting high contrast subjects using the A50/1.2, >A/FA50/1.4 lenses wide open so I assume is more to do with the lenses >optical aberrations and internal wall reflections than coatings.
Of course! How could I have not seen it? Pentax is the first major manufacturer to build a top-notch professional zoom lens that includes "that Leica glow" so prized by black and white photographers! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
