Post by otthe on Mar 12, 2006 6:24:04 GMT -5
Hi everybody
I have been quiet recently, but am still here – there was just too much going on in my job.
At any rate – I have a question to this group – only on second notice having to do with classic cameras:
My birthday is coming up (unfortunately only in a few weeks) – and I ordered myself a new camera – a digital SLR (right now locked up in my wife’s closet).
I chose the Pentax Ist DS – since that seems to be the only one out really compatible with my old classic lenses:
It has a real glass Pentaprisma, is easy to focus manually, it can use all vintages of Pentax (PK) lenses as well as – with an adapter all M42 lenses. And supposedly even the indicator lights for sharp focus work when using manual focus lenses.
The camera came with an auto focus kit-lens – 28 to 80mm, f 3,5 to 5,6 I believe (believe, because, as I said, it is still locked up waiting for my birthday) – ( maybe, I can peek once in a while when my wife is not home )
I do not have very high expectations of that lens. But why I really wanted that camera, is to use it like my trusted mechanical SLR’s – with plenty of time to set up a shot, and mechanical focussing (just that I don’t have to wait for the film to be developed) – So I want to use mechanical, non AF lenses.
And here comes my question – what should I get myself as a standard “always on” zoom lens? – for example for going on vacation or on a bike trip – where I do not want to carry 5 different primes.
My considerations:
· The lens should be small (the body, like all Pentaxes) is very small, and to carry it on a vacation trip forbids to add 5 pounds of lens.
· A wide zoom range would be good – I like close-ups of far away objects – so 200 mm (translating into 300 mm on the Digital would be nice)
· On the short end – 28 mm would be nice, to have at least a bit of wide angle.
· I should be able to focus at short distances (but macro is not necessary)
· OPTICAL QUALITY – I do have some super – zooms – like EXAKTA (which is Asian, not German any more) – but with horrible quality – dark and no contrast – any picture looks like taken in deepest fog. I know that I can not expect Super performance form a zoom covering a wide range – but at least it should be GOOD – otherwise I can just take my small Minolta Digicam and leave the DSLR at home.
As I said, the camera could be Pentax Mount or M42.
Suggestions anyone
Best regards from a still heavily snowed in Southern Germany
Josef Seidl
www.kamera-geschichte.de
I have been quiet recently, but am still here – there was just too much going on in my job.
At any rate – I have a question to this group – only on second notice having to do with classic cameras:
My birthday is coming up (unfortunately only in a few weeks) – and I ordered myself a new camera – a digital SLR (right now locked up in my wife’s closet).
I chose the Pentax Ist DS – since that seems to be the only one out really compatible with my old classic lenses:
It has a real glass Pentaprisma, is easy to focus manually, it can use all vintages of Pentax (PK) lenses as well as – with an adapter all M42 lenses. And supposedly even the indicator lights for sharp focus work when using manual focus lenses.
The camera came with an auto focus kit-lens – 28 to 80mm, f 3,5 to 5,6 I believe (believe, because, as I said, it is still locked up waiting for my birthday) – ( maybe, I can peek once in a while when my wife is not home )
I do not have very high expectations of that lens. But why I really wanted that camera, is to use it like my trusted mechanical SLR’s – with plenty of time to set up a shot, and mechanical focussing (just that I don’t have to wait for the film to be developed) – So I want to use mechanical, non AF lenses.
And here comes my question – what should I get myself as a standard “always on” zoom lens? – for example for going on vacation or on a bike trip – where I do not want to carry 5 different primes.
My considerations:
· The lens should be small (the body, like all Pentaxes) is very small, and to carry it on a vacation trip forbids to add 5 pounds of lens.
· A wide zoom range would be good – I like close-ups of far away objects – so 200 mm (translating into 300 mm on the Digital would be nice)
· On the short end – 28 mm would be nice, to have at least a bit of wide angle.
· I should be able to focus at short distances (but macro is not necessary)
· OPTICAL QUALITY – I do have some super – zooms – like EXAKTA (which is Asian, not German any more) – but with horrible quality – dark and no contrast – any picture looks like taken in deepest fog. I know that I can not expect Super performance form a zoom covering a wide range – but at least it should be GOOD – otherwise I can just take my small Minolta Digicam and leave the DSLR at home.
As I said, the camera could be Pentax Mount or M42.
Suggestions anyone
Best regards from a still heavily snowed in Southern Germany
Josef Seidl
www.kamera-geschichte.de