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johnriley wrote:
Oh my, if you want open aperture there's an example in the 77mm review.

Poor John, we're such a tough crowd!

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on FA Limited lenses at 08/07/2011 - 12:54

Nice theme to the video, and your son's lucky! A bit choppy with some of the editing though, IMO. Would still vote... if I could!

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on My new video at 08/07/2011 - 11:09

f20 won't be helping sharpness much...

You might have more luck with the 12-24mm. Bit less wide, a bit brighter aperture.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on 8-16 Sigma soft? at 08/07/2011 - 10:26

Agree TIm, this is what many people are most interested in when they look at these lenses because getting good background separation and bokeh is more challenging on APSC, and immediately sets images apart from those taken on a good zoom lens stopped down.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on FA Limited lenses at 08/07/2011 - 10:22

Sometimes I have to resort to live view to get good focus on my 10-20mm. I don't think it's a BF/FF thing, just the AF system struggling to find something to lock on to. I can point my 10-20 at a nearby boulder, it focuses, but then I point it at infinity and the AF doesn't kick in! I'm sure I remember someone making similar comments about their 12-24mm, could be a general UWA thing.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on 8-16 Sigma soft? at 08/07/2011 - 09:56

Interesting, but not surprising especially on A3 printed output. As I said before the key benefit of RAW is image malleability in post processing, rather than quality of output on a straightforward, correctly exposed image.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on RAW or Premium JPEG? at 08/07/2011 - 09:48

THAT would be very nice Andrew. Ricoh seem to make some lovely but very unnappreciated cameras.

I've been looking at Ricoh's compacts. The image quality at low ISOs, metal build and feature sets make them very appealing.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on So what are you going to do RE: Ricoh purchase of Pentax at 08/07/2011 - 00:41

I like these Roger. But yes they could do with a pass of the USM filter to sharpen them up after resizing. Only the third one looks like it has focussing or dof issues

Re the spots - can you really not see them?

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Grass Seed-heads at 07/07/2011 - 23:56

Well the lenses do score very well on this and other tests. The controversy seems to be that the epz test doesn't quite agree with some of the other reviews in some cases. Maybe this is down to copy variability (the FA samples were second hand) or maybe, heavens forbid, a testing error!

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Some new lenses at 07/07/2011 - 22:27

Really a poor piece of ill informed 'journalism'. Hey look at me I can skim read a few articles and make stuff up, now I'm a journalist!

Quote:
Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has written about everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems

But his hair isn't going anywhere.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on More so called journalists... at 07/07/2011 - 20:30

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