On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Or maybe it means the sensor Pentax is using is not quite as good as Canon's. > I tend to think one cannot draw any conclusions yet.
There is some evidence that the Canon sensor is a bit better, or Canon's handling of it is better. It's a more developed technology than the sensor in the *istD/D100. However, I do think that some of the problem is not the lenses but what digital post-processing does to the images from the lenses. I don't recall there being a great lamenting of chromatic aberration in Pentax lenses back when Fujichrome Velvia was king. I KNOW that some truly great Nikon lenses exhibit problems on Nikon digitals that they did not on film, and the Kodak N14 is almost legendary for inducing funky performance on very fine lenses. Try comparing the *istD to the Canon D30, which was Canon's first digital camera. That sort of points out how far Canon has come, and how good the *istD is for a first DSLR. DJE
