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Monday, November 15, 2010

New Imatest Lens Review of DAL 35/2.4 on K-5 and K-7

See this:-

http://erphotoreview.com/wordpress/?p=511

I recommend to read results of MTF 50(%) only as MTF 20 is simply considered almost meaningless for the low contrast and inadequate image fidelity that the lens renders.

Does the DAL 35 performs well enough, then? How about its resolution at the frame centre and at the corners? Does it perform very differently on K-5 against the old K-7?

It's your take now! I won't spoil the results this time! (So as to avoid any further arguments! ;-))

Besides, speaking of the K-5, the Japanese K-5 catalogue has been out and is now available for download at the Japanese official homepage, here it is:-

http://www.pentax.jp/japan/imaging/catalog/pdf/K-5.pdf

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It looks pretty good, especially on the K5. A huge step up from the kit lens in every respect except flexibility. But I don't think it's proper to ignore the MTF 20, because those values let you know how well the RAW data will take to sharpening. In this respect, it looks like this lens takes very well to post processing.

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