Ralf I don't see much flare in the night pictures I have taken with the 15 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gnjd82fijffi9lt/AACBX9s4oEpWajDqKbM-MYjta?dl=0
You do get a starburst effect - perhaps that's what you mean? Admittedly most of these are at dusk rather than night and there does seem to a little flare in second last one from the moon and that was the one shot in here that really was at night. Alastair On 3 November 2014 11:00, Ralf R Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am 30.10.14 16:48, schrieb Sandy Harris: >> >> I am trying to put together a lightweight kit for travel. Looking at >> web reviews, I'm inclined to think the Sigma 10-20 f3.5 is a lens I >> want. However, the Pentax 15mm is considerably lighter and reportedly >> very good. > > > I have the Sigma and it's quite decent although rather bulky and heavy. > > I had also considered the Pentax 15 mm, not lastly because I prefer primes > to zooms in general, but a look at the night photos available in the Pentax > Gallery showed a strong flare tendency which makes it unusable for my > purposes, just as bad as the old SMC-A 15 mm lens I had years ago. Pity > really. > > If you don'rt do night photography with strong light sources inside or > immediately outside of the frame, the 15 might be fine for you. > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
