On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:55 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "William Robb" >> >> 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. > > The AF-360FGZ & AF-540FGZ both have an AF assist spotbeam. When used in > spotbeam mode, the flash does not fire.
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