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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
07-05-2018, 02:04 AM
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I'm shaking my head... mainly because I also placed my preorder at 4pm today LMAO! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-17-2018, 02:01 AM
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Well I'm more than willing to admit that I was wrong when it came to identifying the lens, it does indeed seem to be confirmed as the DFA* 50mm f1.4, I am not redacting my opinion on the CA performance of the lens. I regularly shoot with the Sigma Art 35mm f1.4 on my K-1, and though it does show some CA, generally it isn't nearly as intense in colour or width. At the edges and corners of a fast prime I am willing to deal with some CA, as generally wide open the subject is centrally composed, but dead in the centre at portrait distances, it is disappointing that lens control CA more efficiently.
That said, this may be a pre-production sample, so it could be improved by tightening the optical tolerances before shipping, aka that the lens is optically decentered (which would fit with Ricoh Imaging press release on the delay of the lens).
Nonetheless, I am likely to pick this up on launch because I'm interested in supplementing my Sigma Art 35mm f1.4 with something weathersealed (and hopefully faster focusing), and as long as the lens isn't terrible, I'm sure it'll be in my camera bag for a long time to come.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-16-2018, 12:45 AM
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I've had a quick look at these pics in Lightroom @ 100%, and I honestly hope that these samples aren't accurate. In the out of focus areas, there is severe purple fringing on the chrome elements of the helmet, and an incredible lack of microcontrast on the strap itself. My gut says that these are actually FA 50mm f1.4 samples based on my use of the M 50mm f1.4 lens, a lot of the characteristics seem to match. Hopefully this is true, because that amount of fringing on a * lens is unacceptable nowadays IMHO.
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