On Sunday, Feb 9, 2003, at 12:53 Europe/Warsaw, Heiko Hamann wrote:
The experience of success was, that my pictures stick out regarding bestI must admit, that it happened, that I was taking pictures head to head with my friend, who uses EOS-300. Canon tends to have awfull cooperation with flash in program mode - sync time is just set to standard sync (in this case 1/90) and it doesn't change with focal length or available light. Pentax' dynamic flash sync system allows you to go down as slow as 1/30 at 28 mm (1/60 at 50 mm, 1/90 at 90 mm and so on), thus allowing to expose background as much as it is possible, not blurring the picture. In Canon you would have to go to not-so-convenient manual mode, or AV (it meters available light only in this mode) - where you would desperately need to use tripod, to avoid image shake at slow sync times in this mode. So the difference was big, and pictures from my MZ-S looked much, much nicer...
sharpness, contrast and brilliance. The difference was significant! As I
had used AF and matrix metering, this success cannot be attibuted to the
photographer, but the camera system itself. The other pictures were
taken with Canon SLRs (afair) which were equipped similar or even
better. I wouldn't have thought that there might be any difference
between SLRs of different manufacturers at all. But in this case I can
clearly say: Pentax is superior!
Regards
Sylwek
