On 14 Jun 2002 at 16:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I remember with a mix of sadness and sympathy a relatively long thread > sometime ago about the true colour of Pentax long teles. This was one of > the times I thought about how far can some things go on a list, about > sanity, etc... > > Well, Mr. Reichmann, from Luminous Landscape, in his review of 67 400mm f4 > lens, adds something to the very important debate: > > " When examined indoors the lens has a cream-coloured finish overall, with > dark gray control rings. > Attractive, in the Canon idiom, and appropriately coloured for a large > lens, with the reasoning being that a light finish reduces > the effect of heating within the lens on a sunny day. (Even Nikon has now > taken to making beige lenses). > But outdoors in bright sunlight the cream colour becomes a light > fluorescent yellowish-green. Not really ugly, just weird. > What was Pentax thinking of?"
Hi Albano, I don't know about the colour miraculously making a cream to yellow green transition as you move from indoors to out however they definitely are a light green in colour (mine is anyway). In order to lay the thread to rest once and for all I just shot my A*300f2.8 lens along side an old hood (darker green) using my digital camera white balanced on a sheet of regular white copy paper, I deliberately slightly under-exposed to highlight the colour and haven't altered the colour balance post image capture see: http://www.home.aone.net.au/audiobias/P6150756m.jpg Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
