Hi guys, Some more stupidnewbie questions, I hope you don't mind.
When I bought the k100d, I also got an FA50/1.4 and DA40/2.8 ltd. Got the DA40 because it had a good rep, was nice and compact and relatively affordable.... aw hell, who am I kidding, it was a pure impulse buy. A few weeks later and I am seriously dissatisfied with it. I love the build and size, but for every 'wow' pic it makes, there are 3-5 blah pics. It's to the point that I prefer the kit lens, I seemed to have generated far more keepers with it. Focal length is useful. A bit more in the frame than the 50. But f/2.8 and the "meh, whatever" shots it's produced have me wanting to unload it. I remember posting here how the shots I had seen never really wowed me, and they still don't. F/2.8 is the real killer though. Anything shot past 6pm is a noisy, blurry mess, even with SR. ... However, almost every shot I've ever seen taken with the 43 really pops. Color is RidicuNice(tm), it's decently fast - meaning I'll never be SOL if I bring it only with me on an outing, and i've even seen the elusive 3d effect on a few of the pics. At 500 canuckbucks, it doesn't come cheap, and costs as much as the K100d itself. The question is... is it really that big a step up over the FA50, which, at $220 US, was a steal? Now, assuming I make some money back off the DA40, it would slightly undo the financial damage. I am also going to sell some computer stuff I have lying around, this will make for extra fundage too I went back to the April where I asked a similar question. General consensus was that the 43 produced some excellent results. Godfrey dumped his 50 for it and had no regrets. I will never sell the 50. It's RidicuFast(tm). Only thing better is that Zeiss Noctilux at f/1.0, but that's just being silly. I was asking previously afout 70 vs 77 but I haven't spend enough time in that focal range to know if I care about it enough to put a sucking chest wound into my bank account. Especially when old super-taks in that ballpark are plentiful. Bottom line: I'd unloading the DA40... I'm 96% convinced it's the right move. I'm keeping the FA50, 100% confidence Now given this situation, is the 43 worth the 500 bones? Is it... 2.2X better than the 50? Alex --- Join the PDML Traineo group to get in shape! http://pdml.groups.traineo.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
