Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > I have both. ... my preference for the 15mm over the 14mm is simply size.
I have spent a large part of the afternoon looking at photos taken with the various lenses in the Pentax Photo Gallery. Let me start with the worst news: my initial favourite, the 4/15 mm Limited, is out of the game. One of the crucial factors in my night stuff is the shape and size of the stars forming around light sources. In this domain, the 15 mm Limited is by far the worst I've ever seen. As luck would have it, someone had taken a photo of one of my favourite subjects, the Seraing coking plant in Liège. It's the centre photo in the top row: http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/ren%C3%83%C2%A9pelzer# There's a lot more examples, many even showing monstrous stars around the sun by day. This is even worse than my all-time hate-object, the M 2.8/35 mm. Pity, really. The 2.8/14 mm is better but not good. At least not good enough for parting with such a lot of money. Remains the Pentax 12 - 24 mm. It looks rather decent, in this domain. But I'm afraid it will not be as sharp as a prime. The same goes for the 10 - 20 mm Sigma. Help!!! I'd like to take a wide-angle to our oncoming two-weeks vacation. We're leaving on Thursday. What to do? Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- 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.
