Were I buying a new Pentax kit today, I'd buy
K20D body (but the K10D does fine too)
DA21 Limited
FA43 Limited
DA70/2.4 or FA77 Limited (another toss up)
DA12-24 or DA14 (toss up)
DA*50-135/2.8
Pentax dedicated flash unit and remote extension cord
I already have the A50/2.8 Macro and matching Rear Converter 2x-S for
macro work.
Add spare batteries, enough memory cards, remote (IR and cable),
sturdy tripod.
That's it. Nothing else required. I'd sell all the other gear because
the above is what I'd use. Maybe once in a blue moon I'd want the DA*
200 or 300, but I wouldn't use them enough to spend the money.
Godfrey
On Mar 6, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Cory Waters wrote:
As a purely hypothetical , lets just say you had maybe $2500 to
spend free and clear of any guilt. Lets also say you were inclined
to spend said clams on new lenses. We'll say you have a K10, the DA
50-200 & 18-55, a FA 28-105 f3.2-4.5, and a FA 50 1.7 (there are
some other manual focus lenses but we're focusing on newer stuff).
Further, lets assume that we're going to buy new lenses from an
online retailer (probably Amazon) and they need to be available for
sale now or at least in a couple months. Assume we shoot lots of
family-type shots (kids, vacations, scenic stuff from camping trips,
etc), some sports (racing, football), and some more artsy or flower
stuff on occasion. How would you spend it?
I've been thinking:
90/100 macro (from whom?)
70-200 2.8 (Sigma? A TC to go with it?)
DA* 16-50 (it's maybe too big for walk around/vacation and I wish it
went out to 85mm)
Mmmmm Limited. But 43 or 31? 77? The new 55?
Cory
quite possibly counting unborn-chickens
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