Joe wrote:
>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. Pro photography is changing to digital as well. More and more pro nature photographer are going digital as I write this. And this is the likes of the D30. What will happen when the 6mp cameras hit the shelves in the summer? The F5 is six years old now and Nikon more or less have stated that it won't be replaced. Probably for a good reason. >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. What exactly is the bonus of not having IF? I can't see any. Most telephoto lenses have IF because it speeds up AF and make for closer focusing distances. >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 But isn't the Pentax also 2 touch and constant apertures? What exactly is the point you are trying to make? I agree that the Pentax is expensive but they could have come a long way by removing the power zoom feature. Still the Pentax is priced close to the Canon. >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? Not really. I can see that the Nikon is cheaper and that's good but apart from that it doesn't have any advantages over the Pentax. BTW the Pentax is reportedly sharper as well so I guess you get what you pay for. P�l - 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 .
