On 4/27/05 1:14 PM, "Graywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Plasticity: A subtle quality of roundness, depth, and smoothness of a > photographic image highly prised by artistic photographers. It is produced by > subtle choice of uncorrected aberations by the lens designer. Pentax > traditionally disigns lenses with this quality. The Limited lenses display > this charactoristic particularly well.
This is exactly what is explained by the designers of the Limited lenses. They purposely left the aberrations ever so slightly, thus resulting in now infamous "3D effect" of these lenses. My understanding is that (just a hearsay, but I see this sort of descriptions all over the places in articles in Photo mags) Nikon used to be (still is?) pursuing absolute crispness (another infamous saying "don't use Nikkor for portraits" :-). I am sure some of those descriptions on Nikkors might have been somewhat exaggerated but the ones for the Pentax Limiteds are from the critics as well as the horse's mouth :-). I really like the rendition of the Pentax lenses in general, sometimes described by some a touch softer. Cheers, Ken
