Get the 16-50mm. Of the FA limited's I strongly recommend the 77mm. My fave lens.
Macros, well if you can find a Voigtlander 125mm I'd say that, but I hear the D-FA 100mm & Smegma 105mm are good too (and more importantly still available :-) Cheers, Dave 2009/3/7 Cory Waters <[email protected]>: > 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 -- 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.
