You would have half a stop more light entering the viewfinder, which isn't much, for manual focusing. However, I guess the DA lens is autofocus, so you might want to delegate that to the chain gang of enslaved pixies operating the focusing mechanism in the engine room.
B > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Weir > Sent: 08 June 2014 11:06 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Focus in low light > > > Recently I took a bunch of photos in low-light with my K5 set to ISO 12800. > The lens was an A 28/2.8, which I get good results with with good light. After > doing noise reduction on them the images looked pretty smudgy. Almost, > but not quite, like water color images. > > I'm blaming the result on poor focusing on my part, which I found difficult in > low light. I've had my eye on a 35mm DA L F2.4 AL for a while. Would I have > gotten better results with it? > > Thanks, > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die > from a great loneliness of spirit." > > - Chief Seattle > > > > > -- > 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.
