On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > speeds that are part of the Pentax DSLR concept. Whatever happened to > shooting @ f1.4, or f2.0 or 2.8? Oh, wait, many of the new lenses don't > seem to have those apertures. Those are wonderful apertures for portraits, > and even for "street" fotographie to soften the backgrounds.
Let me chip in. Wifey and I were looking at some pictures I took while on a long weekend in August. One of them I took with the K135/2.5 @ 2.5, and featured Her Indoors, the Bairn and the most wonderful bokeh I had ever seen (and I do have and shoot wide-open the FA50/1.7). Not surprising when you frequent PDML to look out for the bokeh. Thing is, She Who Must Be Obeyed noticed it too! She wants an enlargement of it, but (here is the but) I need to understand first if her eyes are focused as sharp as the daughter's. Comes with the bokeh, I should think. My 2p, Kostas (what a lens this 135 is, what a lens)
