Originally posted by Ira All of the experts here missed the two most important reasons of all:
Saving battery power, and no annoying ZZZZZZ sound.
My initial post included the remark better video support (no zoom sounds), but the battery point is very clear and recycling old lenses is also better for nature. Actually my father's old Pentax actually still works properly without a battery, the flash and the metering systems won't work, but if you know your equiptment then you can still make 200% pictures with it, even without a battery. Would that be a cool feature for the successor of the K-7?
Originally posted by Arpe Yeah and those manual focus primes are just soooo good for covering the kids' sports games!!
Not.
Not every tool can do everything, but sometimes it helps to utilize the improved High ISO performance by closing down the aperture to create more margin on erea being in focus and maintain fast enough shutter speed to avoid motion blur. To me photography is about getting the right picture with the tools you have available!!!
Originally posted by tuco I hear you on the step backwards these APS-C cameras have for a view finder and manual focus lenses but with the K-7, at least, you get a green focus indicator light in the view finder to let you know you're in focus with a manual lens.
Yeah, that is a nice feature of progressing technology. The K-x also has the confirmation functionality, you don't need to go expensive to utilize manual primes.
Originally posted by civiletti In the ultrawide range, zooms like the DA12-24 and Sigmas 10-20 and 8-16 give as good or better IQ than available primes.
For the ultra-wide applications I can imagine you want to match the amount of perspective change per photo. On the tele side of the range it just means a couple of meters back or forward, or cropping of course.
Originally posted by Lowell Goudge but the best lens bargin still remains the kit lens
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Actually there are no right or wrongs here, it is personal taste. I have both, and use both
Agree 200%
Originally posted by stover98074 Adding an 11th reason.
MF lenses are fun to collect.
And MF primes are of course more fun to collect than auto focus zooms, right?
Originally posted by hangu This list is asinine and that's coming from someone who uses MF prime lenses exclusively.
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Other users have already listed some good reasons as to why they use MF lenses, I can't help but feel that you missed the real reason why people use MF primes.
Sorry but I don't think you know me at all.
Can you guess how many primes I owned so far?
Originally posted by kerrowdown I've followed this thread from the beginning, for me it's all much simpler.
I like my manual fast primes, because for me, they get the job done allowing me to capture the images I need.
Often under less than perfect and sometimes difficult conditions and at the end of the day, that's how I get paid.
No debates, no right or wrongs here, just a happy user.
Yeah, maybe the tone in my initial post was a little too sharp, sorry.