Experienced users of DSLRs will no doubt be singularly unimpressed and might as well stop reading now. :D
However, like a kid with a new toy, I am enjoying discovering how far camera equipment has progressed since I bought my last camera in about 1980.
I have been delighted to discover that I can still use all the lenses that used to fit my Pentax ME Super.
This, for example was taken with my 50mm f1.4m lens, obviously with manual focus.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
Before some sharp eyed photographer complains that it isn't perfectly sharp, I should point out that it was a hand held shot taken at 1/3 sec. I couldn't have done that with my film camera.
An even better illustration of the fact that Pentax's anti shake feature works is this one.
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment...5-ii-bears.jpg
At that resolution it looks reasonably sharp, but it does have significant blur when viewed full size.
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment...-5-ii-bear.jpg
That might not look especially sharp, but since it was a hand held shot taken at 1 second, I am convinced that the system works. I know what a 1 second hand held shot would have looked like with my old SLR.
I even tried some improvised macro just holding my old 28mm lens back to front in front of my 50mm lens to see if I thought it was worth spending about $5 on a connecting ring.
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment...5-ii-wheel.jpg
The pronounced vignette makes me think that maybe just a reversing ring might be more useful. I seem to have lost the one I had for the ME Super.
BTW, I do own a tripod, but I wanted to test the limits of the anti shake, especially with my old 1980's prime lenses.
