Brendan MacRae wrote: > Gaurav, > > Were you using a K10D with the new SDM lenses? They > focus pretty quickly and are very quiet because the > focus motor is in the lens. Other DA lenses will focus > a bit more slowly and be louder. > He was talking about hunting. Surely the motor does not affect that? > My buddy shoots Canon and says that his 40D (with 9 > autofocus sensors to the K10D's 11) focuses very > quickly. But this camera also does 6.5 fps and is $500 > more for the same MP's. > > > > -Brendan > > --- Gaurav Aggarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> I am hoping to buy my first Digital SLR and spent a >> few minutes in a >> store before my wife dragged me out :-) I use a >> Pentax ZX-M with two >> PKA zoom lenses right now (35-105 f/3.5 and 70-200 >> f/4). >> >> I thought that I liked the feel of Pentax K10D but >> then when I tried >> Nikon D80 it sort of felt lot better. Was this >> because I spent too >> little time inside the store and not outside etc.? I >> don't know. The >> focussing on Pentax with the 18-55 seemed to hunt >> compared to the >> Nikon that had 18-70. >> >> Has anyone had direct exposure to Canon and Nikon >> besides Pentax. I >> searched the archive and read a few emails on this >> topic but wanted to >> ask all over again. Sorry about this. My concern is >> that Pentax >> autofocus may seem to hunt more and be less >> accurate. The salesman and >> couple of other customers in the store all suggested >> that Nikon is way >> better than Pentax. >> >> Gaurav >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > >
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