Peter, You focused on the tip of her nose! Try the eyes next time. That lens has a very short depth of field wide open. (Your contributing to the urban legend about one of my favorite lenses.) Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 01:35:17 -0500, Peter J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to use a few prime lenses on the *ist-D just to see how they > preformed. > The oft maligned smc P-M 85mm f2.0 was mounted on the *ist-D when > Canon/Coffee house > girl decide to join me while I wasted some time with a cup, (Papua New > Guinea). ~127mm makes > for tight head shots. > > http://www.mindspring.com/~webster26/PESO_--_portrait1.html > > Technical: > Pentax *ist-D iso 200 @1/180sec > smc Pentax-M 85mm f2.0 @ f2.0 > > Comments welcome but may be totally ignored. > > -- > I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. > During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings > and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during > peacetime. > --P.J. O'Rourke > >