On 24/08/07, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 15mm is a superb piece of optical engineering as many of you will > know. On a 1.3 crop camera it still gives a very usable wide image, and > with no vingetting due to said crop. I don't even focus it - set it to > f8, set the focus accordingly and just get lost in the framing with the > camera set on aperture priority. It's not the brightest view at f8 on > stop-down metering but entirely do-able.
It definitely appears to be underrated by some owners, I'd hope it's not sample variation but like you I've found it quite a pretty good performer on my APS crop bodies, it's only real failing is that it tends to flare more than later lenses in areas of high contrast. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
