On Sep 22, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Bob W wrote: > that's quite a difficult question to answer without knowing how you plan to > use them.
I don't have plans. I'm a novice. A RANK novice. I'm just trying to get a versatile set of lenses to cover whatever I might want to try as inexpensively as possible. At the moment the things that get my attention are action -- mostly little kids playing soccer -- and nature/landscape stuff. We have a string of parks here in Atlanta that were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. I wrote an article about efforts to restore them a while back. [The restoration was just finished this summer.] They include deep woodsy areas and areas that are open with mature trees, sorta savanna-like. I'm drawn to them. I hear people here taking on "projects." I might make learning to photograph them a project. Went out at dusk last night to the deep woodsy one -- "Deep Dene" it's called -- on my first attempt. Haven't had a chance to look at what I got very carefully, yet. Just in the camera's LCD. From that I can see I have a lot to learn about shooting in contrast conditions. But I knew that anyway. > The 35-105/3.5 was a good performer but weighs a ton and I > found that I did not particularly enjoy using it. Yeah, I see it has a 67mm front lens. > I often looked at the A35-70/4 but it > felt rather plasticky compared to other lenses in that series, and I didn't > particularly like that zoom range. Thanks for that bit of information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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.
