NONE of the things you mention below are removed/unavailable by having and using autoaperture functiong lenses. It would still be easier to focus accurately with autoaperture, especially in low light. Your argument on this matter makes no sense. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:42 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Pentax K 28mm f2.0 Lens William Robb wrote: > From: Adam Maas > Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:52:47 -0800 > >> You don't agree, that's nice. > >> It works for me. Note also (as per our last go 'round on the subject >>of open-aperture metering) that I'm rarely shooting more than 2 stops >>down from wide open. And I shoot with fast lenses. > > It seems to me that shooting a fast lens stopped down a couple of > stops would give a similar viewfinder brightness as using a zoom lens > wide open, but you would have the benefit of a generally higher > contrast image to work with. I can't believe people can't figure this > out and choose to argue about it instead, > since we've been manually focusing zoom lenses in the f/4-f/5.6 maximum > aperture range for a > couple of decades. > Obviously, it's doable. > > William Robb > > Yep. And I prefer to be as cloe to wide-open as is workable, I like to see the character of the lens which is so often hidden at small apertures, as well as shallow DoF. So I shoot fast glass wide open (And hit my head on max shutter speeds all the time). I actually get a lot of questions when people look at my exposure data, usually along the lines of 'why the hell did you shoot this at 1/3200 and f3.3?' or similar, or conversely 'how did you get the nice out of focus areas?'. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
