----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling" Subject: Re: Don't want to sound too alarmist but...
>I have a problem with Herb for other reasons. He often seemed to bash > Pentax equipment for no particularly good reason. Take this example > from DPReview. > http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=17269059 > Now every lens has it's problems, but I've found the 43mm Ltd. to be > acceptably sharp at just about all apertures, a bit softer wide open > like most Pentax "normal" lenses, and have never had a problem with > corner sharpness when I used it on my LX or MX cameras.. Based on his > report, he must have an entirely different lens, not even related to the > one in my bag. When someones reports on equipment are so much at odds > with my personal experience, what should I think of their other opinions? You actually have a problem with Alan Chan. I recall one time that he returned a 135/1.8 something like 3 times until he got a sample he was satisfied with. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
