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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 10-18-2010, 03:34 PM  
DA 35mm/2.4 - A Plastic Wonder! -- DAL35 vs FA35 vs DA35m vs A35 (many photos!)
Posted By frank
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Thanks guys for your feedback.

From the results you can see that DA35macro certainly has the best center and corner sharpness, that's inline w/ my experiences with this wonderful lens. FA35 might have slightly better resolution, but the difference really isn't much especially considering we are viewing at 100% crops on a 16.3mp sensor. You probably won't feel the difference during actual shooting.

DAL35 is very comparable to the other 3 lenses in other aspects too, actually I like the slight softer and smoother bokeh from DAL35 better than the others. The difference is there if I view those bokeh samples on my Dell WFP2408 monitor side by side, but I can't see much difference on my laptop screen where I have to scroll all the samples up and down to compare.

The new lens might have some improved coatings as well, it seems to let more light pass through at the same aperture. Or maybe Pentax should call it DAL 35/2.2? It's just a number, you won't see any difference during actual use though.

Anyway, I guess you won't see much difference between the FA35 and DAL35 during actual shooting, the A35 is probably too old to compare w/ the new lenses, DA35macro is truly one of the best lens in sharpness and resolution test. But when shooting at a subject some distance away, it's not the best lens out there.

I'm glad that Pentax released such a reasonably priced little lens with very good optical quality. Hope we'd see some similar 50/85mm lenses in the future.

Oh btw, big thanks to Clicker for upgrading my photobucket account to a pro one without my knowing it, otherwise we won't be able to see these sample photos but the 'bandwidth exceed' sign.
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