Very well done collection. Excellent lens performance, as you say. Jack
--- On Sun, 10/12/08, Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: GESO - Cape May & Wildwood, NJ > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 3:22 PM > 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. -- 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.
