FWIW, the last older lens I used that had mucho nasty purple fringing was the smck 200/2.5 which is an otherwise nice lens. I sold it and am afraid to try another one. Older lenses can be great but I tend to dislike older zooms and long telephotos. Modern wins there. The early zooms/long teles were not very good compared to the shorter primes of the same era.
----------------- J.C.O'Connell [email protected] ----------------- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:48 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Nifty Fifty comparison over at the forums On 28/08/2012 4:55 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: > The older series lenses are readily available on the used market. And I > wouldnt be so quick to claim the older lenses have purple fringing problems. > Given the right conditions, there are very few lenses that don't purple fringe. This is one of those things that, if you are curious, you find out what the limitations of the optic are, and avoid those situations with that optic. I have a couple of lenses that have been written off by the boffins on ForumsnNeurotica for PF that are just fine to wonderful if you don't put them into situations that tend to create PF. -- William Robb -- 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. -- 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.
