Bruce Dayton <[email protected]> wrote: > It would help to indicate realistically how much you are willing to > spend.
Under $1500, preferably well under. If that gets a camera and one good lens, OK. If it covers two lenses, better yet. BH show $600 for K-x, so roughly $900 available for lenses. Getting one high-grade lens and either buying used for the other or waiting to buy it later is possible. So is having one be manual focus, perhaps even stop-down metering. I'll be buying in Hong Kong, so there are quite a few used options. > There are quite a few options that have a wide range of > price. Also, since you are talking about an APS-C format, how wide > are you really thinking? 28mm for full frame is not really very > wide, just starting to get wide. For APS-C that is about an 18mm > lens. So it you really want wide, you are looking at the 14/2.8, > 18-55, 16-45 and 16-50 for current lenses. > > More info would help us give more useful opinions. What I have in mind is the classic 35/85 two lens kit. 35 full-frame equivalent would be wide enough for most of my purposes. Good cheap 24/2 or 2.8 would be first choice if there was one. 21 Limited definitely appeals, but nothing wider unless it is a zoom. I thought of a 10-20 or 12-24 zoom, but I don't think I'd need the wider end much and those lenses tend to be fairly heavy & expensive. On the longer side, 75 mm equivalent is the minimum, and I'd prefer a bit longer. Voigtlander 58/1.4 is my first thought. I can afford 21 Limited and 50/1.4, giving me two autofocus Pentax lenses. Those look like a good match and comments on them are all positive. 50 is not quite as long as I'd like, but you can't have everything. Voigtlander 58/1.4 would be preferable on the long end, but it is more money, not autofocus and perhaps harder to match. Might not work well with 21, too big a gap between. I thought perhaps the 58 and Sigma 24/1.8 to give me two fast lenses, but the Sigma i's fairly heavy and no-one here is praising it. I'm no longer considering that. The advice to use the 16-45 was a surprise. That is a pretty flexible lens. Going down to 24 mm equivalent may not be essential, but it is something I'd use. The obvious 2nd lens to go with it would be 70/2.4 Limited. That would be a bit beyond what I want to spend, but a very flexible kit. Hmmm.... -- 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.
