On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 05:09:54PM +0000, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: > Which would you prefer in a lens?\ > \ > 1\. Best rendering. Detail may not be as fine, but the formation of the image > is closer to reality. > > 2\. Some pincushion distortion, but better detail. > > 3\. Balance in between. Minimal distortion and good detail.
I've never really given this much thought. Ever since my first Pentax (a Spotmatic SPII with the 50mm/f1.4) I've found that the weakest link in my image creation process was usually found behind the viewfinder. Admittedly I shoot hand-held most of the time - even when I was using my 250-600 zoom I was using a monopod, not a tripod - so I wasn't really pushing the envelope of what my equipment was capable of producing. But it produced images I was happy to have taken. Arguably the worst lens I used over the years (apart from the 100-300 I used for a while until I switched to an 80-320) was the rather strange 40-80 zoom I bought with my Super Program. But even with that lens, which was maybe a bit lacking in sharpness at the edges until stopped down to f5.6, and also a little soft at either extreme of the (limited) zoom range, still generally did all that I asked of it. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
