On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > I really liked this big hefty one-touch zoom when I had my DS. Despite its > slight tendency to overexpose by about a stop, it was big 'n' bright and > sharp. > > I've found less and less love for manual zooms since getting my K10D, > though. Why? Because I like to use SR for most of my hand-held stuff > (especially at long zooms, where it is actually quite useful) and since this > is a manual zoom, I either have to pick a zoom length, stick with it, and > set the SR accordingly - or just not use SR (or accept that it's a > compromise). > > Frankly, it's more trouble than it's worth and I don't do that much > telephoto work anymore. It's on my stack of "I'll probably be getting rid > of this lens" lenses (which is, admittedly, a stack that rarely actually > goes down in size). > > What have others done with their ueber-zooms which are not auto focus? Do > you still use them, and if so what do you do (if anything) about that pesky > "zoom length" setting for the SR? >
I have that very lens, but I never use it, only because the focal lengths are next to useless to me on my *istD. I have two other VS1's, a 35-85 f2.8 and 24-48 f3.8, both constant aperture. I sometimes us the 35-85. It's big and heavy but that fast speed makes it useful for indoors although I find that for some reason it really accentuates noise at high ISO's. Here's a shot recently taken with it: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2008/12/conversation.html I find the 24-48 to be too hard to focus at wider focal length without a focusing aid, even with the *istD's bright focusing screen. I regularly use a few other manual focus lenses, primarily my Vivitar f3.8 19mm and my Zenitar f2.8 16mm fisheye. One thing about APS-sized sensors: I crave wide! I don't have to worry about that silly SR zoom length stuff... ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
