Currently I have a few lenses which I always use: Kit 18-55 Tamron 28-75 A-28mm f2.8 FA-50 f1.7 Zenitar 16mm
Those are the basics which I carry around most of the time.... I am buying a K10D and handing down my DS to my daughter for her wedding. Since the K10D is not coming with a lens, I have a decision to make about lenses. I think my daughter would be quite satisfied with the 18-55 so I'm thinking of handing that down to her with the DS and getting something to replace it for myself. This is where it gets tricky. I've always wanted something in an ultra-wide - most of the time when I use the kit lens it's for that 18mm setting. So I'm thinking that something like the Pentax 12-24 would be pretty good, leaving only a small gap between the 24 on the Pentax and the 28 on the Tamron. But another line of thought is that the 16-50 f2.8 would be an awesome lens to put on the K10D as it would give me something "all-around" and weatherproof to boot. But I'm not sure how rah-rah WIDE 16mm is on the 16-50. Plus it does overlap the Tamron by quite a bit. Size, weight, cost are about the same for each. Gosh, what would YOU do if you had to choose between these? Would it be smarter to just get the venerable 16-45 (almost the same zoom range as the 16-50 and about $300 cheaper)? How wide does a non-fisheye 16mm lens look? And is it reasonable to think that a person could use the 12-24 as a "walkaround" lens or is it just too-too wide for "regular" photography? As you can tell, I have no idea what to do right now. I'm just buzzing around in circles. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- 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.
