Hi Stan, on 10 Sep 03 you wrote in pentax.list:
>I would like to see a photo of the SMC-M 10/2.8! That must be an >impressive lens! Unfortunately I had forgotton to bring a saw with me ...;-) >But seriously, it will be interesting to see how the system will work when >faced with challenging conditions. As when the lens is wide open, the film >speed is high, the shutter speed is low... Will we get the same fall-off in >quality at wider f-stops? Or about the same as with film? Is there a >mirror-slap vibration problem at 1/15 or 1/30 as with some film cameras? As I already have mentioned - we did use a pre-production modell and were asked not to publish any pictures. We did notice some minor problems of this special *istD that I don't want to discuss in detail. But theese problems make it impossible to give a true judgment concerning the questions you have asked. All in all the pictures were very promising. I will make an English report, soon. A German version can already be found here: <http://www.digitalfotonetz.de/istD/istD_Erfahrungsbericht/ body_istd_erfahrungsbericht.html> We made lots of pictures. I hope that I will find some time to compare them and give you some more information. But I don't think that I will manage this before the weekend. >I am also curious about the digital "film." If you have old and new CF >cards (normal vs. "fast", "plus", or "ultra" cards), We had a "normal" 256MB CF card and an "ultra" 256MB card. I didn't notice a difference. Cheers, Heiko
