20mm lenses
Pancho Hasselbach
pentax.pan at vollholz.de
Wed Feb 28 18:51:22 EST 2007
Joe,
should I really thank you for making me want that lens more than before?
Hmmmm...
Pancho (getting ready for LBA, methinks)
Joseph Tainter schrieb:
> "I believe Joe Tainter did that some time ago. His conclusion was that
> it's almost a toss up on performance ... they both perform very well,
> the DA21 is slightly better on some aspects."
>
> Correct. They are very close in terms of sharpness.
>
> In shooting, the DA 21 does have some barrel distortion. I never really
> evaluated the FA 20 for that.
>
>
> "I only had a Pentax FA20 once for a very short evaluation and found
> it to be an excellent performer, better than my Canon 20/2.8."
>
> Photodo says so also.
>
> I can't bring myself to give up my FA 20, even through it will probably
> come out of my travel kit if I get the DA* 16-50 F2.8.
>
> Joe
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