It is one of my favourite lenses, the other being 77 Limited. I use it only on film bodies, so don't know how it works on a DSLR. I love it for for it's many qualities, being able to produce very pleasing images overall, very good flare resistance and for its speed. I can see it as a great combo on K10OD or fure K10D for example. Fast 35mm equivalent together with SR should be able to do a lot. I'd love to see DA equivalent 16/2 for 1,5x crop on DSLR. This certainly would cut my cake.
There certainly is a disparity about its sharpness. Yoshihiko's tests at http://www.takinami.com/yoshihiko/photo/lens_test/pentax_superwide.htm l shows it as the best of the 24 Pentax lenses, also photodo 's results vwere very good: http://www.photodo.com/product_93_p4.html OTOH, as Godfrey says, many don't get such results. My take is - highly speculative - that maybe it is due to it's plastic-moulded aspheric element (which is the cheapest, however not the best way to produce an quality aspheric element) which might result in worse performance if it is not perfect. Or it is simply the matter of users different personal expectations. My 0.02, Matjaz From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My reservations about the 24/2 stem from the wide disparity of > comments I've heard about its optical performance. It seems most > people who have used it with film love it, but most people who've > used it with the DSLR bodies find too much chromatic aberration and poor > sharpness wide open. I think Rob Studdert posted some comparisons showing > the A24/2.8 and FA*24/2 performance, using the *ist D body, and the > A24/2.8 was a substantially better performer. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
