Judges favoring anything would have to assume that they look at rejects, because the peer voting bumps lots of photos out. There has been no instructions to vote based on equipment to us, so I really doubt a significant portion would be voting that way - enough to impact the vote.
Certainly one could make an argument that expensive lenses are most often purchased by more accomplished photographers and therefore shots taken with those lenses may have a better acceptance rate. -- Best regards, Bruce Friday, February 29, 2008, 2:59:15 PM, you wrote: MR> Ken Waller wrote: >>> Nobody seems to have picked up on: >>> Lens Series Name Lens Name Count >>> unknown unknown 610 >> >> Early on, Some of the lenses I used were not listed - I chose unknown to be >> able to submit. >> >>> I thought it was supposed to be all Pentax? >> >> Their submission rules only state the image must be shot with a Pentax SLR. MR> It's interesting to look through the lens popularity list (I've MR> converted it into Excel format to make it easy to sort in various MR> different ways). MR> Looking at the top 3 most popular lenses: MR> smc DA 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 AL MR> smc DA 16-45mm f4 ED AL MR> smc DA 50-200mm f4-5.6 ED MR> ...leads me to suspect that the judges are now favoring shots taken with MR> more recent gear. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
