MHO: get a cheap pentax digital body like an *istD or DS and an A50, maybe a 1.7. These are cheap and good lenses. Shoot lots of images. Look at them all, decide which ones you like and think about why. Then decide what went wrong with each pic and how you might fix it. You can learn more formally later. It's better and more fun to be active at first. You'll have plenty of time later to be picky. -----Original Message----- From: frank theriault <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:30:09 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: More help for a novice
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Eric Weir >> >> On Sep 22, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >>> > . . . . just because they're autofocus I don't have to use them as >>> > autofocus. >> >> Or would I? > > Not if you don't want to. Who's going to make you? Well, yeah, but if you want to manual focus, get a manual focus lens. I've manually focused AF lenses (usually in low light) and it's not the preferred way of doing things. MF lenses are nicely damped and because they have longer "throws" (if that's the word - I'm trying to say you have to rotate the rings more from one end of the focus range to the other) you can be much more precise. 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. -- 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.
