Don't think you have accurately "summed up". From the article linked: "Excellent aberration control with very low amounts of purple fringing" and "Perfectly accurate autofocus, regardless of aperture, when using Contrast Detect AF (Live View)" but using the viewfinder autofocus was inexplicably awful (at least on the sample of lenses PF tested). I wonder if this is something that could potentially be fixed via lens firmware?
The thing I like the least about sample images I have seen from this lens is the bokeh. I do not agree with the review in the bokeh department. I think this lens has weird bokeh. On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Pentax forums did a review of the 18-35: > > Skipping to the conclusion: > http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/sigma-18-35mm-f18-dc-hsm-art/conclusion.html > > From the start: > http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/sigma-18-35mm-f18-dc-hsm-art/introduction.html > > tl;dr: > Amazing lens, incredible sharpness but nasty purple fringing and lousy > autofocus performance. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) > > -- > 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. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.
