I want some of what he's been smoking. Wait a minute. Ken, KEN ROCKWELL!! _You_let_Keven_go_right_now_ Do you understand me, RIGHT NOW YOUNG MAN!
Kevin Waterson wrote: > Just recieved my 645D today and thought I woud share my first impressions. > I went for the 22mp version as the 39mp version was both a little more than > I need, and a lot more than I could afford. However, with the savings I made > on the lesser body, I was able to splash out a few extra dollars for the new > 70-200mm f2.8 lens, with the stock lens being the 80mm f2.8. > > The first thing I noticed when I picked it up was the wieght, or rather, the > lack > of it. It weighs in about 500g heavier than my old *istD, making it easy for > carrying about for some time. > > Armed with this bad boy I took a little trip to the local church where a > wedding > was in progress to check its low light and high ISO performance. I must say I > was > not dissappointed, the fast autofocus made quick shooting simple and at ISO > 6400 the low noise on the images is amazing, it is far superior to the K10D at > ISO 400. Even in the low light, the combination of fast autofocus and > anti-shake > proved a winner. > > I was only inside a few moments when the ceremony ended and we all moved > outside where I was able to shoot off a number of images at ISO 50 in the > sunlight. > Once again the snappy auto focus secured a number of images, but sadly at > only > 2.8 frames per second this would not be a sports photographers best tool > although > with shutter speeds up to 1/10,000 you could stop a bullet. The shutter speed > can > also be optionally set to go as low as ISO 25. > > I found the dials easy to use and the new 'intuitive' menu system not too > intuitive > but the basic functions are simple enough to access and only when I wanted to > fine tune things did I need to consult the manual. > > Access to the various internals (batteries and storage card) is quite simple > and have > a second lithium battery for it. I have yet to purchase the power cable which > would be > great for those in a studio environment. I chose to use the CF card option > over the SD > as I find the SD cards too fidgety. I do like the idea of being able to plug > the camera > directly into a computer and have the images stored directly on to the hard > drive, but > have not explored that option yet. > > I also had a few of my older 645 lenses about and took a few shots with the > 50mm > macro and the resulting images are just amazing, Anybody buying this camera > will > never use 35mm again. > > My favourite feature though is the ability to change the degree of the spot > metering > allowing me to choose the area I wish to meter on. > > The only down side I could find was that all of this, took place in my > imagination. > > Patiently waiting > Kevin > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
