Hi Rob, On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:54:16 +1100 Rob Studdert wrote: > >Jan, only one of my Sigma lenses has OS and I don't use it as it's a >17-50mm and offeres no advantage over in body SR but it does work.
Yes, I guess for sucg a short lenas there is little difference ... >That said the electronics required to stabilize the moving internal >element still use power so the OS lenses are more power hungry then >their non-OS counter-parts. Certainly true yes, and it IS noticable, but I stll got several hundreds shots from a single K5 battery. And I really like the 'stabilized' viewfinder at 500mm :) Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- 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.