I agree, but it's the DOF control offered by the fast stuff that gives creative possibilities.
I just bought the Nikon 85mm f1.4. Sure, it's not at it's best at that aperture, but the ability selectively isolate details and surround them with soft bokeh goodness is awesome. DS 2010/1/4 Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com>: > Adam, > Of course, I can argue that a useful ISO 1600 in digital negates the > need for an f2 or better. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Adam Maas <a...@mawz.ca> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: >>> On Jan 3, 2010, at 06:32 , Adam Maas wrote: >>> >>>> Pentax offers nothing truly comparable to the 58 Nokton, the FA 50/1.4 >>>> handles worse (particularly for manual focus, the Nokton has a large >>>> and well damped focus ring) and has significant QC problems with >>>> recent production and the DA* 55 is about twice the price of the >>>> Nokton and both are shorter lenses in a range where smaller focal >>>> length differences remain noticeable. >>>> >>>> At the wide end Pentax is lacking any fast glass wider than 31mm. >>>> While Pentax lenses are excellent, Pentax really has not provided a >>>> full lens line unless your needs are small but slow primes and/or f2.8 >>>> zooms. >>>> >>>> -Adam >>> >>> >>> >>> You consider the DA 14mm ƒ2.8 slow? >>> >> >> Yes, but not terribly so, f2.8 is quite acceptable for a 21mm >> equivalent, but by is no means fast. Remember, the FF world has lenses >> faster than f2 in this FoV range (Oly 21/2, Sigma 20/1.8, Leica >> 21/1.4, even Pentax's prototype 20/1.4). Pentax has exactly two lenses >> wider than 31mm and faster than f2.8 (28/2, FA* 24/2), and neither are >> current-production >> >> -Adam >> >> -- >> M. Adam Maas >> http://www.mawz.ca >> Explorations of the City Around Us. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> 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 > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
