William Robb wrote:
There has been a rather protracted and sometimes heated debate about this on
ForumNeurotica over the past day or two.
The best arguement that the naysayers can come up with is that wide open
corner performance isn't good enough on some lenses, so the entire full
frame sensor idea must be wrong.
The worst argument that they've been able to make is the old Pentax is a
small company that can't afford it, the market is too small, blah blah
blah....
The more sensible people are of the opinion that stopping down a bit will
cure most problems, that some lenses don't perform well, but others do,
proving only that some lenses are better than others, and that Nikon, Canon
and Sony seem to be doing fairly well making 35mm full frame DSLR cameras,
and that there seems to be a lot of people adapting full frame Pentax lenss
to their digital EOS cameras and getting good results.
It looks to me like Ned is saying what he is being told to say by his
political masters, and not what he might say as a photographer.
Perhaps the whole Leica D-Lux fiasco caused Pentax to rein in their wild
horse a little, and got him start talking more like the president of a
camera company.
I strongly suspect that the light falloff in the corners that presents
an issue with full-frame digital isn't so much caused by design
differences necessitated by digital itself as it is a result of the
"ability to pixel peep" afforded by digital.
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