On Mar 2, 2011, at 12:03 PM, steve harley wrote: > On 2011-03-02 11:25 , Mat Maessen wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Eric Weir<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Same here. I've kinda got my mind set on the 1.4 A50, otherwise I would be >>> tempted by the >>> 1.7. >> >> I have both, and honestly the 1.4 isn't better enough than the 1.7 to >> really justify the price difference. They both work very well on my >> DS2, and I'm sure they'd work well on something newer too. > > i agree, the aperture difference is minimal and some say the IQ is a of the > 1.7 is a little better; i have an A 1.7 and an M 1.4 (and an A 2.0) -- the > 1.4 goes idle while the 1.7, because of it's IQ and auto-aperture > convenience, has been on my camera half the time lately; i've stopped looking > for an A 1.4
When you need 1.4, you don't really care about how the lens works at the rest of the range, so you could use a supertak 50/1.4 and it wouldn't matter because you're just using it wide open. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
