Charles Robinson wrote: > On Nov 26, 2007, at 2:58, Toralf Lund wrote: > >> I've also suspected (or experienced) that the Pentax AF isn't really >> as >> slow as some would have it, or not slow at all in relative terms if >> you >> compare fairly (as Mr Robb points out), but that's a different issue. >> >> > > I was at a family function a couple days ago.. spent about half an > hour shooting with the DS with and without flash (but mostly with) and > used manual focus almost exclusively as it was dark and... well... the > focus is stinky in dim light. This was with the Tamron 28-75 f2.8 lens. > [ ... ]
> And > this is a camera of the same vintage as my DS. (Same sensor too, is > it not?). Maybe the DS may be seen as a slightly more "low end", or perhaps not... [ ... ] > The interface was a bit to get used to - but the SPEED was something > else. I would LOVE to have a camera with the image quality of my DS > but with the raw SPEED of the Nikon. I was impressed. > > Yes, the DS focus speed is slow. Maybe you're right and it isn't "as > slow as some would have it" but the difference was immediately > noticeable (and annoying). > I have never tried the DS, so I wouldn't know how fast it is. I tried a D70 once, and the AF didn't strike me as faster than what I was used to (from Pentax film bodies), but I didn't do a side-by-side comparison. Anyhow, my main point was that a different focus motor is hardly the solution to the low light focusing issues mentioned earlier, that you say you too have experienced. And I think one might argue that you didn't really test the focusing speed of the two cameras in the situation you mentioned. You compared the low-light performance of the AF systems, which is not exactly the same thing. - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
