I originally bought the FA135 2,8 for portraits but it was too long. Now I find it useful for nature photography and urban shooting -----Original Message----- From: "Ken Waller" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:37:12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: It's a great lens, but not what I bought it for
Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Skofteland" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: It's a great lens, but not what I bought it for > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 03:24:50PM -0800, Larry Colen 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? >> >> -- > > A 500/4 makes a nice portrait lens. I've used the 600, with success, as a landscape lens. -- 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.
