From: "Don Sanderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Any suggestions, other than the 77Ltd. (Which I can't afford) > for manual focus primes to fill the gap between 50 and 85mm? > I'm good down to 16mm and up to 400, but 50-85 is a pretty big > hole, and I'd rather not fill it with a zoom. > I was thinking of the K35/2 with a good 7 element 2x but I hate to > do that to that nice lens. ;-/ > > Don Hmmm, if you consider 50-85 to be a big gap just how many primes are you going to carry around with you? I find a 1.4x converter fills in the gaps nicely between primes and solves the problem of how much weight I'm prepared to lug around. 1.4x converters have an easier time and generally yield better results than you get from the normal 2x jobbies. I would hesitate to use a converter on a wide angle lens, however a 1.4x converter on a 50 is an ideal combination, should give you the focal length you are looking for. I use an old DOI 1.4 converter that is stunningly good and a fraction of the size of any 2x converter - so small you don't notice it. The DOI came top in a comprehensive converter shootout in Amateur Photographer at the time yet, if you see one, you probably won't need to pay much more than a tenner for it. Or the 40mm pancake with the 1.7xAF converter could be fun - I wouldn't expect the results to be as good though. Rob.
