Not arguing or being argumentative, but if one already has two zooms that start at 18mm, then buying additional zooms that have a wide limit of 1 or 2 mm more is not getting him much, maybe a little speed, depending on the lens. However, if the intent in purchasing is to use it mainly as a wide angle, then a fast prime makes more sense in my book, but then I'm not spending the money.
I hear "plenty fast" and things like that. How fast a lens is and whether it's speed is satisfactory is dependent largely on shooting conditions, is it not? I'd want the fastest lens available/affordable, because just when you think your lense is fast enough, it's not. Tom On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> Larry Colen wrote: >> >>>I keep finding myself "needing" a lens that is wide, fast and >>>preferably reasonably sharp. Pretty much all I have wider than 31 are >>>my 18-55 and my 18-250. I'm thinking of diverting some of the money >>>from selling my racecar to buying glass. >>> >>>I think that the ideal lens would be a 16-50, and I keep bumming that >>>I never went for the one on craigslist just before I got laid off. >>> >>>Poking around on ebay, I've found a few options. >>> >>>Pentax 16-50 seems to go for $750-800 >>>A Zenitar K MC 2.8 16mm for $180 >>>A couple of Pentax SMC DA 14mm f2.8 ED for around $590 >>>SIGMA 17-35mm f2.8-4 DG EX $300 >>>Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC $370 >> >> How about the Pentax 16-45? Slower than the 16-50 but smaller and >> cheaper. >> > > Owned both that and the Sigma 17-70. The Sigma's as fast or faster, > better built, at least as good optically and locks at its most compact > at 17mm (rather than being fully extended as the 16-45 is at 16mm). > The 16-45's got QSF as its sole advantage. > > Note I did like the results from the 16-45. But I had zero regrets > when I purchased the 17-70 over the 16-45 after getting my K10D. > > -- > M. Adam Maas > http://www.mawz.ca > Explorations of the City Around Us. > > -- > 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.
