Seems that you have a much bigger gap between the fisheye and the 24 than between the 50 and 85.
-- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:03:06 PM, you wrote: DS> My prime kit now consists of 16(fisheye),24,28,35,40,50,85,90,100, DS> 135,150, 200, 300, 400 and 500. DS> (NO, I don't carry them all at once) ;-) DS> Though the 40 and 90 are redundant they have an entirely different DS> character than their 35 and 85mm counterparts. DS> The missing length between 50 and 85 bothers me for some reason. DS> 50 seems a bit short and 85 a bit long for some portraits on the D. DS> Heck, maybe I'm just a lens addict! ;-) DS> If the sun ever comes back out I'll try the 50/1.4 with the 1.4x. DS> Might just do the trick. DS> Don >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rob Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:20 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Filling the 50-85mm gap. >> >> >> 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. >> >> >>
