I was at least half serious, but I did not consider the DOF issue. However, just in terms of quality of image, I wonder if an image shot at 1.2 and then cropped to, say, 25% of the original, might not be better than one shot at a higher ISO, uncropped. Am thinking 1.2 at 400 or 800ISO vs. 4.0 at 3200 or 6400. Mea culpa mea culpa mea culpa if my f-stop math is off... I don't wonder enough to go try it out, just an idle thought.
stan On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:40 PM, paul stenquist wrote: > I'm guessing that Stan is being facetious. You really need a zoom to shoot > most sporting events. You don't want to crop a 50mm shot to 200mm FOV. > I thought the shots Bruce posted with the K20D were relatively noise free. > I'd worry about a Kx in terms of write speed and autofocus control. You want > to be able to choose your focus point when necessary, and a full buffer is > not a good thing when shooting action. > Paul > On Feb 1, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > >> A50/1.2 Crop as needed. >> >> stan >> >> On Feb 1, 2010, at 12:15 AM, Sandy Harris wrote: >> >>> On 2/1/10, Bruce Dayton <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Very much appreciated. If there is enough difference I may spring >>>> for a K-x. >>> >>> Could you get a faster lens instead? The 77/1.8 limited and >>> the 85/1.4 are both reportedly excellent. Would they be long >>> enough? If manual focus is OK, perhaps the A * 135/1.8? >>> -- 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.
