Hi, Heiko, I wouldn't discount the photographer being part of the equation. Even with auto-everything cameras, I wonder if maybe hand-holding with more stability could account for much of the difference in sharpness you noticed.
regards, frank Heiko Hamann wrote: > Hi, > > I just want to tell you of an experience of success that I had on > Friday. We were invited to a wedding last summer and our friends did ask > me, if I could make some photos. I didn't feel like doing it, so I only > took my MZ-5n with the SMC-FA 28-70/4 and the AF500FTZ and shot 4 or 5 > rolls of film with the camera set to complete auto modes. They had also > asked some other friends and so we came together last Friday and had a > look at 40 (!) films containing 36 pictures each. Really cruel... > > The experience of success was, that my pictures stick out regarding best > sharpness, contrast and brilliance. The difference was significant! As I > had used AF and matrix metering, this success cannot be attibuted to the > photographer, but the camera system itself. The other pictures were > taken with Canon SLRs (afair) which were equipped similar or even > better. I wouldn't have thought that there might be any difference > between SLRs of different manufacturers at all. But in this case I can > clearly say: Pentax is superior! > > Cheers, Heiko -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
