Amazing considering they brought the first AF SLR body to market. For the times that I use AF in low-light, I've overall found it works pretty decently on the *ist D at least. I just had it out at the ski area last week. Night, people picture, in front of ski slope lit for night skiing. Not a bright scene at all. AF hunted one or two times, but focus locked and image was in focus. That was with the much maligned FA 28-200.
Of course this was a stationary subject. If I was in low light taking grab shots I would expect the AF to perform not quite as well. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:02 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gonz" > Subject: low light autofocus > > >> Is there any combination of Pentax body/lens (digital) that does >> relatively well in low light? I took my K20D and K200D to a wedding >> and the autofocus sucked in a big way with the both a DA 12-24 and an >> FA 50 1.4. I tried to focus manually when I noticed about 1/2 of my >> shots were out of focus, but my eyes dont do well in bright light let >> alone low light. > > The K7 at least has an AF illuminator which will turn on and let you focus > on what just happened. > It won't turn on until well after what you wanted to photograph has left the > building though. > Unfortunately, if you want good low light AF, the words Nikon and Canon are > where you will find your answer. > > Back in August I was using both K7 and K20 at a wedding, the AF in neither > camera worked well in moderately low light conditions if the subject was > moving even slightly. > Autofocus is still an unexplored frontier for Pentax. They know what it > looks like, but they seem afraid to implement it into their cameras in a > meaningful way. > > William Robb > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
