Out of all the Pentax lenses I owned and used, the FA43, FA77 and DA21 were the best performers, in that order, overall. (My use of them inverted the order in general...) I don't do technically viable resolution and contrast test from which to infer what their specific performance wide open might be.
On Wednesday, June 22, 2011, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > I love Frank's sig: "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri > Cartier-Bresson > yet there is little that exceeds sharpness as the mark of a great > optical design. > There have been several lenses that have been claimed to be the > "sharpest" in the Pentax stable, and others beyond Pentax (Zeiss > probably most often mentioned). > > So I thought I would ask PDML members for their opinions on which lens > (or lenses) they would rank as the sharpest in their stable: > Overall > and > Wide Open > > I do not have a GREAT collection of lenses from which to choose, but I > would have to say that mine right now, at least the sharpest wide open > is the Tele-Takumar 200mm f5.6. In addition to sharpness it has great > color and contrast. I love that lens. I have two lenses on the way > that might rival it (we'll have to see)... a Vivitar Series 1 28-90mm > f2.8-3.5 and a screwmount S-M-C Takumar 135mm f2.5 (version 2). The > latter is definitely not the sharpest wide open (but acceptably so) > but is often mentioned as one of the finest 135mm lenses in the known > universe. > > What say you? > > Darren Addy > Kearney, Nebraska. > > -- > 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. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
