Doesn't look that soft to me - just an extremely narrow depth of field. I'm not sure that the plane of focus is on the leaf Paul suggests; it looks to me as though the sharpest focus is on the stem or closest edge of the rear one of the two leaves projecting into the central void.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:31:39PM +0000, Jack Davis wrote: > Somewhat soft, but a bit better than might be expected at F1.2. > > J > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Stenquist" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 12:55:58 PM > Subject: Miserere's A 50/1.2 > > It???s a beauty. Like new to my eyes, and in the original box with the > packing stuff. > > The lens, which is much more compact than i expected: > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18223762&size=lg > > And a lilac bush branch in my yard, shot wide open, focusing on the > foreground leaf at right: > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18223763&size=lg -- 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.

