> From: William Robb <[email protected]> > > On 29/11/2012 5:53 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: >> wouldnt it be easier to use the pentax lenses on a pentax dslr? >> with the adapter, the pancake looks more like a tall stack of pancakes... >> > > I've often wondered about that. Tom is incensed that Pentax doesn't > perform up to the level of the competition, and I can certainly > understand that, but I don't see the logic of buying adapters that kill > any possible performance gain that the new system gives to use the old > lenses. > AF isn't fast enough, so lets put the lens on a camera via an adapter so > that there is no AF doesn't strike me as an especially logical thing to do. > > William Robb
But that's not the point at all in this case or many others. Yeah I think Pentax AF can be improved, but shooting landscapes that's never been a big complaint of mine. Using it on a Pentax DSLR I'd be missing 8MP of information. This was not an AF lens to begin with and I doubt I've used it in a decade. However on a 24MP body it becomes a nice general purpose focuser of light rays, even with an adapter that equals the depth of the lens. It's still very compact. Shooting landscapes and such, or night landscapes, chances are there's no focusing involved. Set to infinity and shoot. So instead of just letting the lens collect dust I can use it. Granted I have an E-mount 50/1.8, but there's something kind of cool about using the older lens. You gotta admit that setting aperture on the lens is more fun than setting it on the body. Tom C. -- 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.
