IT confirms what I thought, I will have to chose between it and 60-250. Ouch !!
Thank you William. On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:01 PM, William Robb<[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thibouille" > Subject: Re: DPReview vs the DA* 55 1.4 SDM > > >> Margus, what are your findings about sharpness, specially wide open? >> Supposedly (I insist, I can't compare myself) the FA50 is soft wide >> open and DA*55 is quite sharp even wide open. >> > > This is what I found. I'm not sure if I'd call the FA50 to be soft wide > open, but it certainly lost a lot of sharpness wider than f/2.8. The DA* > lens is only very slightly less sharp wide open than it is stopped down to > f/4 (where it sings). > By f/8 there isn't much to say between the two, so if you spend your life > stopped down to 5.6 or smaller, the DA* is probably not the lens for you. > However, if you like to shoot wide open and have decent sharpness, then you > have to decide if you can stomach the cost of admission. > The DA* does come with a very impressive lens hood. > > William Robb > > -- > 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. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) -- 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.
