On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:53 -0400, "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.
I've got no experience with the 50-200 but the 55-300 is my constant companion. It's better than it has any right to be. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- 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.
