On Thu, Jul 18, 2013, Boris Liberman wrote: > On 7/16/2013 12:19 PM, Bipin Gupta wrote: >> >>And plenty of Photographers + Reviewers said the DA 8-55 Kit lens >>wasn't good. What rot, my 18-55 AL II purchased new from Buy com for $ >>101.99 shipped was a darned good lens with plenty of sharpness, color >>and contrast. >>Some photos with the Kit Lens:- >>https://www.dropbox.com/home/Photos/EUROPE%20SUPREME or >>https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5a5e3gftc6l18wa/TdTS-xk13y
Nice! I especially like the lion. > Without any disrespect, Bipin. I've opened the pictures you posted on > my 24 inch profiled Dell monitor. It is set to full 1920 x 1200 pixels > resolution and I my eyes are appox 1 m away from its surface. > > What can I say - the photographs are good in terms of light, > composition and/or processing. What I also notice is the rather soapy > sharpness. We have this term in Russian - the lens produces soapy > pictures. What it means that the sharpness is lacking. The lens was > kind of struggling to get sharp edges and so it came out soapy. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5a5e3gftc6l18wa/g_zPpBN6gs/IMGP7719.jpg Hrm. It looks pretty sharp to me. I'm not at all sure that what you're seeing isn't JPEG artifacts, this image is only 1071x1600. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- 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.
