Tamron 90/2.5 macro. Bought it as a Macro to replace the 90/2.8 AF Macro I'd foolishly sold, ended up using it almost entirely as a regular short telephoto (which it's brilliant at).
-Adam On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > When I bought my sigma 20/1.8, the intention was to use it for indoor, low > light, dance photography. For various reasons, mostly involving manual > focus, it hasn't proven to be as good for that as I had hoped. On the other > hand, I'm finding it very handy as a wide angle macro lens. For example, a > lot of the time that I'm shooting mushrooms, to get the angle I want, I need > to be very close to the subject because roots of the stump, or the ground, is > in the way if I'm trying to use a longer lens. > > Does anybody else have lenses that they bought for one use, that they later > found are much better for something else entirely? > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > 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.
