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Comment by Kevin Stephens posted on *ist DL vs. *ist DS2 at 28/12/2005 - 22:59
Pentax 50mm f1.7 with extension tubes vs a proper macro lens?
How much are extension tubes nowadays?
Comment by Kevin Stephens posted on Pentax Macro 50MM at 20/09/2005 - 23:17
Only problem is that resolution seems to be wasted on 6mp
Comment by Kevin Stephens posted on Looking to buy Pentax FA 50mm F1.4 at 17/09/2005 - 17:45
Available for under £600 without the converter if you shop around
Comment by Kevin Stephens posted on Sigma 50-500mm for Pentax *ist DS at 20/09/2005 - 18:05
http://www.photographyreview.com/cat/lenses/35mm-zoom/Sigma/PRD_85165_3128crx.as...
Comment by Kevin Stephens posted on Sigma 50-500mm for Pentax *ist DS at 19/09/2005 - 23:42
I could probably got an A or M f1.4 easier but I wanted to have autofocus.
How many stops difference between 1.7 and 1.4?
ALso any views between quality of these lenses?
Thanks
Kevin
Comment by Kevin Stephens posted on FA 50mm f1.7 vs FA 50mm f1.4? at 26/08/2005 - 10:52
I also have this lens and am very pleased with results, especially sharpness.
It is very well built
Comment by Kevin Stephens posted on Which long telephoto zoom? at 13/09/2005 - 19:15
main problem was not the speed but lack of features on my Athalon chip which prevents a lot of modern applications running, also small hard disk, no usb 2 etc
Comment by Kevin Stephens posted on Why Raw? at 19/07/2005 - 18:02
Dave,
more sophisticated algorithms that do require a lot more computing power, and take a lot longer even on a 3GHz high end PC. Matt
Please don't tell me I will have to buy an even more powerful and expensive machine
Thanks
Kevin
Comment by Kevin Stephens posted on Why Raw? at 18/07/2005 - 21:46
I guess shooting and saving in RAW, then using Pentax Photbrowser to save copies as TIFF for editing in PS7 is the best route for the time being.
Is there any reason why TIFFs created in this way are likely to be of lesser quality than TIFFs created from RAW via P1C1 or the Adobe plug in? (so long as no changes to white balance etc are required for the RAW conversion)
Thanks again
Kevin
Comment by Kevin Stephens posted on Why Raw? at 17/07/2005 - 12:58
The lens will be good for a long time and you will be able to dump the body for a much better one in a year or two, which will make the diffference between the D-DS-DL seem insignificant