Hi Pal, Maybe you should go out there hire an F5 take a few rolls of high speed action and capture it on slide and see what you say is fact. With sport or wildlife photography you can't sit on your esky and say wow here comes shumacher let me point and shoot his f1 racer at only one frame and get the perfect picture. To get the perfect picture you need to go through a few rolls and sort them out. You see the difference here is your thinking along the lines of amature photography and I'm thinking pro.
With your attitude lets close down all of the photo slide libraries on earth and lets make each glossy magazine go digital. What your saying might be fact but its a good 10 years away for all of those glossy magazines to have pixelless images via digital and current software such as photoshop will need to improve as well. Now for your other comment I can't for the life of me see what the benefit of a non-inner focusing lens would be. Remove the power zoom but by God keep the IF feature. Making it non IF will, all things equal, make it a slower focusing lens not to mention what it does to the balance of the outfit. Go and grab yorself an 80-200 nikon 2 touch retail at about $780 us with constant F2.8 and try it out. This lense is fast with awesome images and it dont need internal focusing. If your life as you put it cant see the benefits then ill be a bunny rabbit. Your comparing at about $1600 or so US for a pentax 80-200 F2.8 internal focus pentax and a $780 us for a nikon 2 touch 80-200 constant f 2.8 To me I have not tested the pentax but I have used the Nikon and its fast and the images are great so I expect better things from the pentax. Saying this the qaulity the nikon offers is enough and its cheaper in the pocket. Can you see what I am trying to say here? Unfortunately those libraries that sell images for photographers sell it via slide. If this attitude completely changes from those that sell and use slide then the market change. Have a good one Joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
