Once upon a time you always had to MF so you got really good at it. Now you will never be as practiced as they were in Ye Olde Days. Good enough for flowers and landscapes, maybe not for gymnasts.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Christine Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a confession to make: I think I'm not willing to manual focus. > > Is that bad? > > Or, at least not exclusively... I have an old A50/2 that came on my > k1000... and a vivitar 70-210 (the good one, even!)... and while I > like the results of these lenses, I seldom use them. I throw the 50 > on only if compactness is really an issue, and the 70-210 only if I > really need the reach, since it is my longest lens. Maybe I'm lazy. > Maybe my eyes are feeling 40. But, I don't think I'm going to buy > another MF-only lens. > > There, I said it. I feel better now that's out in the open. > > :) > -c > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jan 10, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: >> >>>> >>>> Aside from a 50 1.4, which is substantially faster than your 50-135 but >>>> not long enough for the most part, anything faster than the lens you're >>>> using would have to be a prime, and an expensive one at that. And you >>>> won't have the flexibility that a zoom gives you for this type of work. >>>> The 50-135 is an excellent and relatively fast lens. Go for the K-5. >>>> Paul >>> >>> I got to play with the 50/1.4 a couple of months ago, when the Pentax >>> road show came to town. I've never shot with anything that fast, and >>> it was *amazing*. I think you're right that the zoom is better for >>> this situation, but that one is still on my wish list. >> >> Christine, if you're willing to manually focus, what you should do is watch >> craigslist for people selling or giving away old Pentax cameras. I've gotten >> spotmatics with 50/1.4 supertaks for $50 all the way down to free. You can >> get an m42 to K adapter for $20, and that'll get you a very nice, fast, and >> cheap manual focus lens. Since you'd really only be using it when you need >> a lens that is faster than f/2.8, it won't matter that won't automatically >> stop down, just focus with it stopped down anyways. >> >> For that matter, someone on this list might even have a spare. Hell, if I >> start jonesing for a K-5 any harder, I might be willing to sell my spare. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
