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For all you MTF-Chart peepers:

Dpreveiw has launched a new section dedicated to formal lens tests.  they’ve only got 4 lenses up so far (2 of them are Pentax!)  but their little interactive chart-thingee (that’s the technical term) is awesome. 

As always though, I caution not to get too hung up on “the numbers” - they don’t always tell the whole story with a lens.  One of my absolute favorite lenses (the da21 limited) has rather average MTF numbers (for a prime) but produces some spectacular images that just have a wonderful, hard to define “character” to them that looks great in print.

Anyway, check it out:

dpreview lens tests

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