I have both lenses and I do like 50/1.4 more. And my recent favorite is 35/2.
For night shooting tripod works miracles :) If you do not need AF cosider Voitlander 58/14 (excellent lens!) or old Cosina 50/1.2 --Sasha On 2/25/09, Fernando <[email protected]> wrote: > I have both lenses, their uses are different but if I had to get only > one I would go for the 50 (actually the 35/2 looks more useful to me, > but that depends what the intended use is) > 2 stops is a lot of diffence. > > Weight what is more important for you and choose accordinly, but on > the K10D the DA40 looses its main appeal: size. > You are trading 2 stops (in other words the chance to take more > pictures without flash, the chance of using a smaller depth of field > in your photos, etc) for size (which again is somehow lost in a larger > body). > > Still, I use them for different purposes, the 50 is more like a > portrait lens in digital, the 40 goes when I want to make my camera > small and get a tight normal. > > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Amirkambiz Hamedanizadeh > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Pentax colleagues, > > > > I want to buy a lens for indoor and night shooting. I wonder which of the > > following lenses is better: > > . Pentax SMCP-FA 50mm f/1.4 Lens > > . Pentax SMC DA Lens - 40 mm - F/2.8 > > > > The body is K10D, and the other lens that I have is Pentax 18-250. > > Is there lots of difference between F1.4 to F2.8? > > > > > > Cheers, > > Amirkambiz > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > > > > -- > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ > > > -- > 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.
