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Here are a few suggestions on how to achieve optimal sharpness with any lens and DSLR camera. 1. Know your lens: All lenses have a range of settings and usage where they can achieve optimal sharpness. Aperture is a very important aspect to consider when looking to get sharp images. In many lenses, the largest aperture and smallest aperture will produce lower quality results compared to a few stops down from the widest aperture.   Many standard lenses are sharpest around f5.6, but that can vary based on the lens design. If you are using a zoom lens, you will need to search out technical reviews to find out which focal length in your zoom range is sharpest. It’s also important to consider distance from the subject as generally focusing on something very close or vary far will lead to more distortion or less detail. 2. Know your camera: Camera settings are extremely important as well. Using your lens at the optimal focal length and aperture will be useless if you take the im...

While I don’t know if my ideas would be good from a business standpoint, this is how I would set things up. I think having three very well structured and defined tiers would best help users understand what they are buying. The Pentax lineup as it stands at the moment is fragmented with too many naming conventions and no well defined tiers besides the DA* line to everything else. High Tier (All lenses would be WR): Phase out DA* name and downgrade the APS-C only DA* glass such as the 16-50mm 2.8 and 50-135mm 2.8 to the middle tier (Other DA* are OK in FF!). Do not use the * (star) designator anymore. People outside of the Pentax realm usually seem to have no idea how to pronounce the “*” symbol… Take FA capable DA* lenses and call them D-FA SDM WR Limited. Make sure there is a full range of D-FA SDM Limited zooms available for advanced users. Take the FA Limiteds and DA Limiteds that are FA capable and make them WR. Call them D-FA WR Limited. All must include weather resistance (WR),...