P�l, Thanks for letting me know about the sharpness. How is distortion on this lens? I end up doing group shots of people many times and don't really want the people on the ends to end up looking a little fatter than they are.
Bruce Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 12:30:41 AM, you wrote: PAJ> Bruce wrote: >>I would be very interested in your impressions of the lens optically. >>I have both an FA 28/2.8 and FA 35/2.0. I am not so impressed with >>the 28 and reasonably happy with the 35. If the 31 Limited was >>superb, perhaps I would consider at some point replacing both of those >>lenses with the Limited. I already have the 43 Limited and find the >>35 and 43 fairly close in FOV. The 31 would be a better match for it. PAJ> I've never used the FA 28 or FA 35, but the 31 Limited is a superb lens. PAJ> It's the sharpest Pentax wide angle I've ever seen. It also sharper on PAJ> wider apertures than other Pentax lenses I've used. It does show some quite PAJ> heavy light fall-off at the corners at wider apertures and a certain sweet PAJ> spot in the center of the images in sharpness at those wide apertures. PAJ> Although its not as sharp wide open as stopped down, it could still be PAJ> considered sharp at F: 1.8 - much sharper at F:1.8 than I've seen in other PAJ> lenses. At F:2.8 the lens is very sharp. It is significantly sharper than PAJ> the 43 Limited at apertures wider than F:4. Although I haven't made any PAJ> side by side comparisons, I expect the 31 Limited to be sharper as the 43 PAJ> Limited at apertures smaller than F:11 as well. PAJ> P�l PAJ> - PAJ> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, PAJ> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to PAJ> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - 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 .
