Adam Maas wrote: > And once again, you assume that a 20+ year old prime design can match > a brand new zoom design, especially one that's well optimized. While > you could no doubt produce a modern prime design to match these new > zooms, nobody actually is doing so except Ziess, and Zeiss doesn't > have any currently available SLR lenses wider than 25mm (the 18mm f3.5 > hasn't shipped yet, and based on published MTF charts, will only match > the Nikkor Zoom in performance). > > Another irony is you assume the zoom is more complex. > > Take the Nikkor 14-24 for starters. It's a brand new design (released > last fall), 14 elements in 11 groups with 2 ED, 3 Aspherical and 1 > Nano-coat elements. The only prime to exceed it in performance is the > Zeiss 21mm Distagon, which is 15 elements in 13 groups (and is also > the only vaguely modern 20/21mm design for 35mm SLR's, having been > released around 10-15 years ago as a clean-sheet design). The Prime's > more complex, not less.
Give up, Adam. No sense bring facts into this. "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." — William G. McAdoo -- 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.
