I would agree with that assessment. I had the A50/1.4 and the colour was unbelievable. I also had a K85/1.8 and the colour was somewhat more neutral, as is my older SMC Takumar 55/1.8 >Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:19:14 +0200 >From: Daphne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: 50mm f1.4-K versus 50mm f1.4-A > >somehow I suspected as much - because all the shots taken with my >50/1.4-A stand out from the ones I took with my (different focal length) >K-series primes in precisely that aspect - color punch, not sharpness. >It is very sharp, but thats not the first thing you notice - in fact, I >often found that the pics looked undistinguishable from ones taken with >my (long since sold) AF 50mm! Thats why I wanted to try out a K-series >lens of the same focal length. Also all my other lenses are now >K-series, and the single remaining "A" lens looks like a (teeny) > - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .