Pentax DFA 21 2.4 . Sony G 20 1.8

Your best selling prints are not best selling because of the fact that the images were taken with the 31 ltd. I'm sure that if you had a decent lens and a decent modern camera you would have taken great images as well. It's far more about how you capture the moment than about the tiny differences in how lenses render the image.

I think that people talk about this "magic" of ltds due to brand loyalty, being fans of Pentax. Nothing wrong with that. But .. we should not be blinded by this either .. I think that if you would really compare different systems side by side you'd have hard time seeing a meaningful difference.

Don't take me wrong, I have all 3 ltds and I love the lenses .. mostly the build quality .. however I would not think that there are not better lenses out there. And the new 21mm is the same story. Great lens but as great as many other.

Best,

M

It's hard for me to believe that you could have the Limiteds and not agree that they render distinctively.  Whether you like it is up to you, but the Sony lenses are just different.  Perfect to a fault - which many people love.  I like it sometimes.

My print was in fact taken with the wrong FL, but the rendering of the 31 is such that I got away with cropping it.   I can think of other decent lenses I have that would've done he same job, and several that wouldn't.  They all have unique signatures - which, again, is important to some people but not others.