What Adam said. The DA 50-200 is a lot of lens for the money. On Jun 8, 2010, at 10:00 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
> The DA 50-200 is a wee gem of a lens. I'm constantly and pleaseantly > surprised when I use it. > > -Adam > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Ed Keeney <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm in the market for a new lens and looking for sage advice from the list. >> >> I'm currently using a K100D with the following zoom's... >> FA 70-200 4-5.6 >> FA 100-300 4.5-5.6 >> >> I find that the longer 100-300 is a little heavy so I tend to lean to >> the smaller 70-200. My problem is that the shorter lens decided to go >> belly up with some internal mechanism problems and I fear it's beyond >> repair (or can be repaired, but not sure it would be worth it). >> >> I shoot the kids playing sports. They're still young so I can get >> pretty close to the action. I've attempted birding, but find even the >> 300 to be a little short (another day will bring a discussion on >> converters). >> >> I'm looking at replacing the broken lens (or both) with either the DA >> 50-200 4-5.6 or the DA 55-300 4-5.8. Does anyone have real world >> experience with these two lenses? I'm leaning to the shorter 50-200 >> due to cost and equivalent replacement. >> >> Thanks! >> Ed >> http://picasaweb.google.com/ewkphoto >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > 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.
