---- Larry Colen <[email protected]> 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 do folks feel about these various lenses?
_IF_ you get a good one, the Zenitar is a good lens; for the price it is outstanding. It has only two major problems - the quality control and the poor lens cap design. -- 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.
