The nice high contrast rendering is probably more to the credit of the DA* 50-135 than the K-3.. I use the other DA* lenses more often, but the 50-135 is probably the best in terms of rendering. Super glass.
Paul On Feb 22, 2014, at 12:39 PM, John <johnsess...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Looks like it handles high contrast fairly well. > > 17689333 & 17690856 where you have the table light in the frame, the light > is, of course, all the way to white, but there doesn't appear to be any bloom > from the light(if "bloom" is the word I'm looking for). > > On 2/21/2014 7:43 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> I finally had a few minutes to render some of my pool night pics. All were >> shot with the K-3 and the DA* 50-135/2.8 at f4 and ISO 12800. I included a >> couple of pics that are a bit soft due to motion blur at 1/15th second or >> thereabouts. Some of the pics in the extremely deep shadow are a it noisier >> than the rest due to trying to pull up some of the shadows and, in some >> cases, substantial cropping. Were I to edit this gallery to my taste, half >> the pics or more would go, but many of these people are friends, and I made >> the gallery for them. >> >> Low light performance seems to be comparable to the K-5 but focus in low >> light is substantially better. Last year I lost a lot of shots when I >> couldn’t lock focus. This year I think it only happened once and that was >> probably m fault. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1066083 >> >> Paul >> > > -- > 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.
