I really haven't had a complaint about the 28-200 on either film (used for years on my Pz-1p) or digital bodies. Overall I get satisfactory results and I find that since Pentax digital bodies typically perform less than average sharpening in RAW, I can unsharp mask and get perfectly fine results.
Tom On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:05 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > I find that the 28-200mm is really quite good, on the *ist-D, it's short > throw focusing does make the most of Pentax autofocus motors, though I > seldom use autofocus, and it's even pretty good on the K20D if you stop down > a bit... It's also surprisingly flair free for a complex zoom lens. > > https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20thebirds.html > > On 1/10/2010 1:13 PM, Thomas Cakalic wrote: >> >> Amazing considering they brought the first AF SLR body to market. >> >> For the times that I use AF in low-light, I've overall found it works >> pretty decently on the *ist D at least. I just had it out at the ski >> area last week. Night, people picture, in front of ski slope lit for >> night skiing. Not a bright scene at all. AF hunted one or two times, >> but focus locked and image was in focus. That was with the much >> maligned FA 28-200. >> >> Of course this was a stationary subject. If I was in low light taking >> grab shots I would expect the AF to perform not quite as well. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:02 AM, William Robb<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gonz" >>> Subject: low light autofocus >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Is there any combination of Pentax body/lens (digital) that does >>>> relatively well in low light? I took my K20D and K200D to a wedding >>>> and the autofocus sucked in a big way with the both a DA 12-24 and an >>>> FA 50 1.4. I tried to focus manually when I noticed about 1/2 of my >>>> shots were out of focus, but my eyes dont do well in bright light let >>>> alone low light. >>>> >>> >>> The K7 at least has an AF illuminator which will turn on and let you >>> focus >>> on what just happened. >>> It won't turn on until well after what you wanted to photograph has left >>> the >>> building though. >>> Unfortunately, if you want good low light AF, the words Nikon and Canon >>> are >>> where you will find your answer. >>> >>> Back in August I was using both K7 and K20 at a wedding, the AF in >>> neither >>> camera worked well in moderately low light conditions if the subject was >>> moving even slightly. >>> Autofocus is still an unexplored frontier for Pentax. They know what it >>> looks like, but they seem afraid to implement it into their cameras in a >>> meaningful way. >>> >>> William Robb >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 > Courier New;}} > \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 I've just upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0 and the > interface subtly weird.\par > } > > > -- > 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.
