My copy of the 12-24 is (very) sharp. The stars are visible if stopped down. I need to check if I have any shots at f4 and highlights. Some claim it is as good as a prime I don't know because I don't have a 12 mm prime.
Toine 2011/12/18 Ralf R. Radermacher <[email protected]>: > 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. -- 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.
