What drivel ... Surely as a photographer you can determine what lenses work best for you after using them for thousands of exposures. If you can't, grab a box of crayons and a coloring book and make your images that way. I certainly hope your comments were tongue-in-cheek.
Shel > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C" > Subject: RE: Manual Focus Pentax Glass on istD > Re: scientific... My original words were meant to mean that 'taking a > 1000 frames with a number of lenses' on a film body and then > comparing them to ' a 1000 frames taken with the same lenses on a > digital body' is not a conclusive test. Hardly anything could be > determined unless they were taken of the very same subjects, from the > very same vantage point, under very controlled conditions. And then > studied very carefully. And then that doesn't mean that a given lens > still doesn't perform admirably in it's sweet spot. Obviously a lens > that performs admirably over a large range of apertures and lighting > conditions may be more desirable than one of more 'limited' usability.
