Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >Pentax has long made the mistake of producing better lenses >than bodies. The FA and DA Limited primes, the A*, FA* and DA* >lenses, and even many of the "regular" series lenses are >pro-quality performers.
This raises an interesting issue. When Michael Reichmann tested the Canon 1Ds-III, he said he suspected that its sensor was out-resolving its lenses. In other words, the lenses didn't have sufficient resolution to really take advantage of the sensor. A little math shows the 24 x 36 sensor in the Canon checking in at 138 pixels per millimeter (linear). The 14 megapixel Pentax sensor (23.4 x 15.6) comes in at about 198 pixels per millimeter! Now granted, the 1Ds-III does have the disadvantage of using Canon lenses <g>, but I'll be really curious to see images from the K20D taken with some of the Limited series... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
