An album from our recent vacation to Cape May and Wildwood, New Jersey: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coneslayer/sets/72157607770191688/
I rented a DA*300/4 from <www.cameralensrentals.com> for the trip, with an eye toward buying it next summer. Good service from the company, and I found it to be an outstanding lens. Sharp and contrasty from f/4, with no noticeable CA or purple fringing. My K10D have me some AF trouble, mostly trying to shoot birds in flight. If the bird ever slipped off the AF sensor, and the camera only "saw" clear blue sky, it would send the lens to the close-focus limit, and stay there (with the AF hexagon blinking). Releasing and re-pressing the shutter wouldn't budge it, nor would switching between AF.C and AF.S, nor would turning the camera off and back on. I had to switch to MF, move the lens focus out, and then switch back to AF. I was able to reproduce this problem on the DA*300, my Tamron 70-300, and my DA 18-55. Now that I'm back home, and thinking of sending the camera in for service, I can't reproduce it any more. :-/ -- 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.
