My K-5 took about 5 minutes to resume autofocusing with my DA60-250/4 yesterday. It was disconcerting to experience! I had had the DA100/2.8 on camera for a week or two and then changed back yestereday. I swear the lens has a capacitor inside that must build up a charge before autofocus works. And the darn thing is heavy too! I put a battery grip on the K-5 to improve my ability to handle the combo. The 55-300 may not be so bad after all... Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > A K-5 will do more to improve your keeper rate than will the lens upgrade. > It's the better autofocus that you need. Of course a 60-250 and K-5 would be > ideal. I really think that's what you need :-). > Paul > On Apr 3, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Cory Waters wrote: > >> I've been shooting at my daughter's soccer games for a while now. I'm using >> my K10 and the DA50-200 I got when that camera was new (I think there's a >> newer version out now) >> If I make half an effort, I can come away with three to five shots per game >> that I'm more or less happy with after a little processing. There's another >> ten to fifteen that I'll post out to the parent group. They're not likely >> to be as critical as me, they're happy to have shots of their kid, and I >> assume they're just happy someone else is taking pictures so they don't have >> to ;) >> The problem is, SHE sees the fifteen to twenty "post worthy" shots per game >> and thinks they're "fine". This means that there's virtually no need for me >> to spend a grand on a new faster telephoto lens. >> In the back of my mind, buried deep under years of obsessive desire for >> enablement, I know that a new lens won't make my photos *That* much better. >> It's not the lens that screws up most of my shots... >> >> But, of course, LBA is strong. >> >> The 60-250 calls. >> But it might be the 55-300 that answers. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
