That could be the case, internal reflections can be a big flare issue. Colour balance is tweakable of course, it shouldn't be too difficult to modify the coating to alter colour rendition. It's also possible that William's correct and they're using a mix of coatings.
-Adam On 12/4/07, Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- > > Adam, I would have to check further on this, but my information (from a > Pentax unit) is that the coatings are the same. One difference is that > Tokina's lens bodies have been poor at using internal design to reduce > light bouncing around, even before the joint lenses. Also, Tokina has in > the past been pretty poor in the coating area. Now they advertise their > new, advanced finger- and waterproof coating on the front element. Guess > whose coating that really is? > > But your point about the color signature would make one wonder. As I > said, the information comes from a national Pentax distributor, but they > have gotten things wrong in the past. > > Joe > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
