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Nostatic,damn. I shouldn't have sold my 43/1.9...imho this blows any u4/3 out of the water wrt DR and high iso.
The 70/77 is always a dilemma, and the 70 is undoubtedly a better all purpose lens, in addition to being smaller and cheaper. My problem with the 40 is that it's more than a stop slower than the 43, but I do see your point. Another alternative is obviously the 35 macro. Slower too, but having a macro, particularly one that is as compact as this one, can be useful sometimes.I almost hit the "buy" button from BH today. I actually would go with the 40/2.8 instead of the 43/1.9. I found that the DA ltd were better on the K7 than the FA ltds, and I'm betting that is the same story with the Kx. So a 15/40/70 would be the setup.
Thanks for that, Rafa. Only one company (Matsu****a) got that liveview implementation correct, sofar.I haven’t had enough time to test the camera, but straight out there’s a couple of things that bother me. The live view is useless (AF is SUPER slow and it really doesn’t show what actually comes out at the end), it takes 4 AA bats (they drain super fast),
If you want live view, then you might not want a dSLR. With the Kx you have a real VF though, and you also have phase detection AF which is faster than contrast. Depends on how you shoot - if you want to frame from the display then the Kx or any dSLR will frustrate you except for very slow/methodical work.I haven’t had enough time to test the camera, but straight out there’s a couple of things that bother me. The live view is useless (AF is SUPER slow and it really doesn’t show what actually comes out at the end), it takes 4 AA bats (they drain super fast), the iso steps are too apart (it goes from 1600 straight to 3200, and then to 6400). Of course you also have to think if you are really going to use iso 12800. I don’t shoot much low light, so it’s not really a huge advantage. I’m trying to decide weather to get the Pentax KX + a CanonS90 or just get a GF1. I’m looking forward to Saturday to take the Pentax to the streets. Next week I will be testing the GF1.
It depends if it's someone from Canon or Nikon saying it, heh, heh.$hit has nothing to do Matsu$hita.
I just ordered the Pentax Kx kit. I'm interested in how you fared with the Kx over the last few weeks.I haven’t had enough time to test the camera, but straight out there’s a couple of things that bother me. The live view is useless (AF is SUPER slow and it really doesn’t show what actually comes out at the end), it takes 4 AA bats (they drain super fast), the iso steps are too apart (it goes from 1600 straight to 3200, and then to 6400). Of course you also have to think if you are really going to use iso 12800. I don’t shoot much low light, so it’s not really a huge advantage. I’m trying to decide weather to get the Pentax KX + a CanonS90 or just get a GF1. I’m looking forward to Saturday to take the Pentax to the streets. Next week I will be testing the GF1.