On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:44 PM, AlunFoto<[email protected]> wrote: > On paper the K20D will do about 2.5 frames per second. > On paper the K-7 is about twice as fast. > > Today I played around with both cameras in a park, tracking hooded > gulls as they flew past, and snapping away with the DA*300/4 mounted. > IOW, BiF. :-) > I was stunned by the difference. The K-7 locked focus on the gull and > kept it there for whole series at a time, while the K20D struggled to > reestablish focus between every shot. As a result, about one in four > was in focus with the K20D. With the K-7, the ratio was 17 out of 20. > And needless to say, the practical difference in actual FPS is far > more than the nominal doubling. My gut feeling says today's > performance was about 3x faster for the K-7. > > Can't wait to repeat the test with the FA*600/4. >
So you liked it then? ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
