This rampant enabling is one of the reasons I was never into nature photography. A street kind of guy can get by with a 35mm and 100mm (or the digital equivalent) real well.
And speaking of digital equivalents, I now have one of those almost mythical 35 to 400 f1.4 lenses. It is actually a 6.6 to 86 f1.4 macro TV zoom lens with a built in 2x converter so it will go to 800mm eqv. Only problem is I can not figure out how to mount it on my Oly. Coverage would be OK if I could. Anyone have a EVF digital with broken lens and a 1/1.8 or smaller sensor they want to sell very cheaply? -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- mike wilson wrote: >> From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2007/06/06 Wed PM 02:06:29 GMT >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: My GFM wrap-up (pretty long, probably boring) >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mark Roberts" >> Subject: Re: My GFM wrap-up (pretty long, probably boring) >> >> >>> Doug Franklin wrote: >>> >>>> Mark Roberts wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yep. Gotta get me a 200mm macro. No doubt about it. >>>> I've been looking for an FA* 200/4 Macro for several years. Finding one >>>> is hard. Coming up with the coin for one is harder, since the few times >>>> I've seen actual prices it was around US$ 1,400. As much as I'd like to >>>> have one, I just can't justify that much cash for a lens, since I don't >>>> get any income from my photography. >>> Sigh. I came to the same conclusion about the FA*200/4 macro: Just >>> can't justify that much money considering how much I'd use it (even if >>> I could find one). I suppose I might come across an A*200/4 Macro >>> (which is what Mark Cassino uses) at a more reasonable price, but >>> they're still pretty rare. >>> >> I totally lucked out on my FA200/4 Macro. >> I got home from GFM a couple of years ago with the idea of aquiring one >> fairly high on my list of wanted lenses. >> I think Tom Reeses has one, and spoke very highly of it. >> Anyway, my local dealer got involved in the search, they got the Regional >> Pentax rep involved, and eventually they found one in a rep's kit from >> somewhere in the USA. >> It was shipped to Canada, where PCI did a refurbish on it and sent it on to >> my local store for pickup. >> I think I paid less than Can$1400.00 for it as well. >> I recall that I had budgeted about double what I ended up paying, and so >> decided that I could afford an A600/5.6 that came up on eBay shortly >> thereafter. >> It was a good year. > > Mark, do you think you could manage a PDML Hate List as well as the Quote one? > > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
