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Sunday, April 26, 2015
Ephotozine Tested the Pentax-D FA* 70-200/2.8 (on APS-C)
You will be waiting a long time, Pentax has no plans for a IS system in the lens at 35mm size, in body is far to popular and the spin off's like shift correction and pixel increase are real sales winners .
Well, if you using Pentax system for pro-grade, hand-held, news-style video I strongly recommend a consultation with a doctor. If video is a priority for you there are much better systems on the market then, offering far more for filmmakers. As a photographer I was close to give-up Pentax because of incompleteness of the system, but new lenses, new line-up of cameras including FF body led me to change my mind. The IQ is priority and Pentax can offer very good one since K-5 was introduced. As a filmmaker I am using proper equipment from Panasonic and JVC and if for some reasons I will be forced to work with DSLR only it will be Panaosonic or Canon. Well, of course one can do great movie using Pentax DSLR, even on very pro level. Camera on tripod, pre-selected points of focusing, prime lenses or zooms with particular FL selected and you can do documentary for BBC using K-3 in manual mode. And all the SR's are not important in such case...
This lens not officially release yet they only have some preproduction lenses out at the moment and they have announced they are delaying its' release to AF performance
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As a photographer I was close to give-up Pentax because of incompleteness of the system, but new lenses, new line-up of cameras including FF body led me to change my mind. The IQ is priority and Pentax can offer very good one since K-5 was introduced. As a filmmaker I am using proper equipment from Panasonic and JVC and if for some reasons I will be forced to work with DSLR only it will be Panaosonic or Canon.
Well, of course one can do great movie using Pentax DSLR, even on very pro level. Camera on tripod, pre-selected points of focusing, prime lenses or zooms with particular FL selected and you can do documentary for BBC using K-3 in manual mode. And all the SR's are not important in such case...
Andrew Munster · 505 weeks ago
Andrew Munster · 505 weeks ago