Pentax's' Marketing Dept (I'm making a bold assumption here) must become somewhat exercised at the publishing of such mis-information. To my other question, appears obvious to me that the lens is taking on a lessening role in effecting the outcome of a print? The layers of technology and operator ability seem to trump all else. In the optical dark room, everything works off of the initial careful focus.
Jack --- Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 18, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Jack Davis wrote: > > > I've been reading again. > > This time it's an article ("What's New With Zooms") in the Dec '05 > > issue of Outdoor Photographer. > > Five categories of zooms are grouped and, among other stats, > > identifies > > which have at least on element of "Aspherical/Special Glass." An > > article foot note explains that "special glass" includes LD or > > low-dispersion. > > They have put together five groups of which include all the well > known > > major camera makers as well as independent lens makers. > > I won't set down the complete article here, but in each case Pentax > is > > the only maker which shows an "N/A" in every zoom group. A few do > show > > "none". How that differs from "N/A", I can't guess. > > > N/A is what lazy journalists put when they don't see the info in the > > published specifications. > > Bob > > __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs