Re: Is there a quick and easy test for the 16-50 decentering problem?

2010-04-10 Thread Larry Colen
On Apr 9, 2010, at 6:50 PM, David Parsons wrote: Are you planning on taking lots of pictures of brick walls? No. But it would be handy to be able to test it at the camera shop rather than after driving the thirty miles home. I would try shooting with the lens for a while under normal

Re: Is there a quick and easy test for the 16-50 decentering problem?

2010-04-10 Thread Dario Bonazza
-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 1:11 AM Subject: Is there a quick and easy test for the 16-50 decentering problem? Would it be something like take a picture of a flat surface (brick wall) and look for one corner being out of focus? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Is there a quick and easy test for the 16-50 decentering problem?

2010-04-09 Thread Larry Colen
Would it be something like take a picture of a flat surface (brick wall) and look for one corner being out of focus? -- 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

Re: Is there a quick and easy test for the 16-50 decentering problem?

2010-04-09 Thread David Parsons
Are you planning on taking lots of pictures of brick walls? I would try shooting with the lens for a while under normal conditions and investigate if you see a consistent problem. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Would it be something like take a picture of a

Re: Is there a quick and easy test for the 16-50 decentering problem?

2010-04-09 Thread paul stenquist
With the 16-50, what you're looking for is a focus field that is not flat.. A brick wall will work. But shoot off a tripod and make sure the camera is square to the wall. Expose at f2.8. If the lens has the misalignment problem that plagued some copies of the 16-50, one edge of the frame will