On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Graydon<[email protected]> wrote: >> I didn't say that, Paul. I said I didn't find it 2x to 3x the quality >> as implied by 3x the price. I also found that it flared in various >> circumstances and was difficult to fit with a decent lens hood. > > Price-performance never scales in a linear way, though. ...
I am quite aware of that. I've owned Leica lenses which cost three times what the Pentax 31 Limited costs, and they're not "three times as good". The difference is that *they* were worth it: I was never disappointed in the quality of the photos they made, even though paying for one of them was akin to offering up my pound of flesh along with the requisite quantity of blood. Shylock is probably chortling away at the thought. I found the 31 Limited on the DSLRs to be disappointing for its price tag ... primarily for reasons of flare, flare that was not easy to prevent since I couldn't fit a decent lens hood without creating some weird contraption or hunting down just the right one that would sneak inside the fixed hood. And the idiocy of creating a fixed lens hood that permanently blocks or makes clumsy the use of other lens accessories put it over the top. That's it, it's my opinion and I voted with my wallet: I sold the lens to someone who appreciated it more than I, took the money and bought other lenses that I found more suitable. If that bugs you for some unknown reason, well, that's not my problem. G -- 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.
