FWIW, if going on travel and forced to take just one lens, it would be Tamron 28-75/2.8 for me.
If not limited to just one lens I'd probably take three limiteds and a wide zoom. Cheers! Boris Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Steve Desjardins wrote: > >> BTW . . . A data point to follow up the speculation. >> >> We had this discussion about travel kits before I went to London. In >> reality, I used the FA 20-35 (virtually) exclusively. I guess I >> really >> need to get the DA 16-45 and solve all my travel choices. I used >> to be >> such a fan of short telephotos but I guess I've done more travel >> photography lately and the wide to normal zooms seem to always work. > > I had the DA16-45 but replaced it with the FA20-35. I prefer the > latter's size, weight, contrast and rendering qualities, and the > shorter zoom range was never an issue for me. > > However, once I bought the DA21 I pretty much abandoned the 20-35 and > ended up selling it. My kit has come down to the DA14, DA21, FA43 and > DA70 ... this suits me perfectly, whether for travel or anything else. > > I've got the DA* lenses available to me at present ... Soon as I get > a chance to do some shooting with them, I'll report what I think of > them. > > Godfrey > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
