No use in even posting samples. I think my good copy is now bad. When I push the barrel up the upper half gets sharp again, so clearly the wobble is hurting sharpness. I think the build quality on this lens simply awful. I've tried very hard to baby this lens, but it should be able to withstand a knock or two. I guess I send in my bad copy and have CRIS tighten that and realign it. I hate spending anymore money on this stupid lens, but the range is nice and the rendering and sharpness are both superb when your copy is optically good. I dunno. I mean I can spend $180 or so at CRIS and have the same issue 6 months-1 year down the road. I need something between the 16-40 range and this lens was a seemingly perfect fit. The 17-70 isn't great at the wide end IMO and the 1mm makes a big difference. The 16-50/2.8 is just too much money and I don't need the speed enough to justify spending $1000. Not when I could buy a couple of limiteds for that....If this lens is this fragile, its gotta be the flimsiest zoom I have ever used and that's saying something. Even my el cheapo 28-80 is better built. I really don't know what to do. The 2nd copy was a LN- grade from KEH. It seemed ok optically at first, but seems worse now than before. I liked the lens enough that I needed another copy to replace the first while I decided what to do with it and didn't want it missing. My 18-55 mk1 just doesn't cut it really and isn't very usable at open apertures.
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > LOL! It might not be that much, but it is noticable... > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> 1/4" of wobble? You must have the special LensBaby co-design version. >> Treasure it. :-) >> >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'll take an f8 shot today and upload crops of the upper corners. You >>> tell me. My copy looks no better or worse than photozone's test >>> samples BTW. Their samples are quite soft in portrait. So is >>> dpreviews. My barrel probably has a 1/8-1/4" of wobble to the left and >>> right. vertically it feels tighter. >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:39 AM, John Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Zos, you must have either two bad samples or very high standards! The >>> > 16-45 I got from another >>> > PDML-er (in, I think, 2007) was well used but still gives great images. >>> > I used it extensively on a >>> > number of overseas trips, and most of the images I got from it were sharp >>> > corner to corner: those >>> > that were not are probably due to being taken from a moving bus or from >>> > the hip... >>> > There is no barrel wobble either, so it might pay to have it tightened up >>> > after all. >>> > >>> > >>> > John Coyle >>> > Brisbane, Australia >> >> >> -- >> -bmw >> >> -- >> 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.
