in the old days, 28-85mm could do an extremely wide range of shoots, this is roughly 18-54mm on Pentax digital, hence the 18-55 kit lenses. Don't know if the DA18-55 they sell is any good, but I would not recommend the huge gap in commonly needed normal range beteen 20mm to 50mm. Either use a zoom from 18-50 range or fill in/add a 28/30mm lens if you have one. those are generally small and light and good performance too.
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Home Page - www.jchriso.com Join the Audio CD PLAYER DISCUSSION list - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Subash Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: lens advice? On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 09:25:43 +0300 Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Subash, IMHO you might want to take 10-20 for landscapes (probably > breathtaking shots will come out of this), 50/1.4 for the evening > hours and the shots of your friends, and optionally 50-200... But I > think that wide lens and a fast lens are preferable to the long lens. > FA 35/2 seems to me like the least possible candidate as it does not > offer neither wide angle nor speed compared to 10-20 and 50/1.4... > Unless of course weight and size are restrictions. Then you might > ought to run and buy yourself one of these wide limited DA lenses, > such as DA 15 or DA 21. Boris, i've decided to take the sigma 10-20, the 50/1.4 and the 50-200. it is an eight days trek, we need to carry other things too, so yes weight and size are considerable restrictions. cash looks to be another serious restriction so won't be able to afford the da 15 or da 21 right now. :) > Have a great trip and be safe! thanks Boris. appreciate your inputs. regards, subash -- 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. -- 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.
