On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:50:24PM -0500, Walt wrote: > On 10/1/2012 12:30 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >"P. J. Alling" <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>For just about forever, I've disagreed with Consumer Reports on > >>photographic equipment. > >Once Herbert Keppler wrote an editorial in Modern Photography asking > >its readers to warn their friends not to pay attention to Consumer > >Reports articles on camera equipment. This was occasioned by CR giving > >the Carl Zeiss 50mm f/1.4 lens a rating of "poor" (and not specifying > >what, if any, tests were done to reach this conclusion). > > > I suspect it fared poorly in zooming capabilities.
Yeah - that as well. And, to be fair, I'm sure that for the vast majority of the people who mostly base their purchases on the Consumer Reports ratings a Zeiss 50mm/f1.4 would be a poor choice of lens. Come to that, for most of the time I suspect I'm better off with my DA* 16-50/f2.8 mounted on my camera than I would be with a Zeiss 50mm/f1.4 (even if there were a comparable one in Pentax KAF mount). And for the few times where the extra couple of stops would be useful I've got the A50/1.4 and F50/1.7 lying around. And that's sticking with a DSLR. I think the EPL-1 with both the 14-42 and 40-150 probably cost less than the Zeiss lens alone. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
