Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: >On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> Perhaps another reason that the DA Limiteds are being designed for >> compactness and quality rather than speed is that the DSLRs they are >> designed to work with produce so much cleaner results at ISO 400 to >> 1600 than the film SLRs that the prior series was designed to >> complement. > >That's an excellent point Godfrey.
That probably is their reasoning. Still, fast lenses are important even when you're shooting stopped down (as I almost always do) because of the brighter viewfinder. Several times while doing pre-dawn photography I've switched from my 20/2.8 to a faster lens simply because I couldn't see how my shots were framed with the slow 2.8 aperture. This has happened with the MZ-S and with the ist-D; both pentaprism cameras with good viewfinders. -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
