Havent heard anything on the sigma, Whats the speed? To me the pentax 50-200DA is marginal at F5.6 on the long end. As far as my comments go, I specifically was talking using the 45-125K in a TWO lens, relatively fast, high quality, standard range setup (~28-200 on FF, ~18-135 on APS) not three. Thats a huge difference, because of carrying weight and lens change reasons. I am not saying that a THREE lens setup covering a slightly wider range isnt valid, but its a totally different ball game, I dont even like having one, changeover point using two lenses, let alone two using three lenses, especially in the 28-200(18-135) range with ZOOMS. If I am going to have to change lenses that much I would be inclined to go with primes.... jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walter Hamler Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 7:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Alternative to the DA50-200/4-5.6 ? - Try the SMCK 45-125/4 "I'm not saying you cant use other specialty ranges but where are you going to get a good 18-80mm to go with your 80-200? " Sigma makes a 17~70 that is quite nice according to the reviews. I doubt that it covers FF at the short end but might at the longer portion. That would be important to some. Personally, I have owned a few of the older Pentax zooms that were very nice, but I honestly feel much happier with the new stuff. My current stable of three DA lenses cover me seamlessly from 10mm to 200mm ( 17FE to 300 FF equivalent) Back in the 60's in my Nikon F days it required two rather large camera bags to carry the semi equivalent range of primes along with 4 camera bodies!) I was young and in better shape back then! :-) Walt -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
