The more I work with long lenses, the happier I am with manual focus... :-)
Godfrey - www.gdgphoto.com On Apr 28, 2008, at 7:19 AM, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The DA* 300? > > Very good. Solid as a rock. > I like it a lot. To the point where I concider selling my other long > lenses. > Optically it beats the shit out of the Tamron adaptall 300/2,8 and the > K-500/4,5. It is good fully open, and very good at f:5,6. > I've used it with the Pentax 1,7x AF TC. That combo definately needs a > bit stepping down. But at f:10 it only needs a minor contrast boost in > PP to deliver. I'm really waiting for the new TC to come. > > The only point that I'm not confident in is the AF. Far to easy to > easy to distract. And it tends to go in the wrong direction. > But this could be me, or the body, or both (me and my body) I'm not > used to AF and long glass, > so I don't know what to expect. > > All this said. I've read a lot positive about the Sigma 100-300/4. > Mostly from Canikon birders in Norway. I've seen very good pictures > from it. Seems to perform very well with the matched TC. There is also > a guy at pentaxforums who has both the Sigma and the DA* 300. > According to him they are on par with each other. I find that hard to > beleave. There is conflicting inforamtion about HSM on this lens. > > But it seems tha DA* 60-250 really needs to deliver to compete. > > 2008/4/27 AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hey Tim Ø, >> >> How's your new baby coming along? >> >> Jostein >> >> 2008/4/27 Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >>> The 300/4 will be available any day now. >> >> >> -- >> http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ >> http://alunfoto.blogspot.com >> > > > > -- > MaritimTim > -- > 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. -- 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.
