On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Sandy Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > ,,, > What I have in mind is the classic 35/85 two lens kit.
As time went on shooting with Pentax gear, my equipment needs wound down to a body, the DA21 and FA43. I don't think I used anything else for the last year I was working with Pentax gear. The FA43, in particular, was my all time favorite Pentax lens. It's a little shorter in equivalent focal length than your 85mm target, but such a superb lens I don't think you could go wrong with it. I almost kept the K10D simply so that I could continue to shoot with the 43. That rolls up to almost exactly $2000 at Adorama, $500 over your target. Sheesh, both of those Pentax lenses are about $250 more than when I bought them, each. But you might be able to find one or both of them on the used market at a lower price. On the other hand, combining body only, 21 and Voigtländer 58 would get the total price right down into the $1500 ballpark. Body and two premium lenses ... way to go. ;-) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
