On Jan 10, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: >> >> Aside from a 50 1.4, which is substantially faster than your 50-135 but not >> long enough for the most part, anything faster than the lens you're using >> would have to be a prime, and an expensive one at that. And you won't have >> the flexibility that a zoom gives you for this type of work. The 50-135 is >> an excellent and relatively fast lens. Go for the K-5. >> Paul > > I got to play with the 50/1.4 a couple of months ago, when the Pentax > road show came to town. I've never shot with anything that fast, and > it was *amazing*. I think you're right that the zoom is better for > this situation, but that one is still on my wish list.
Christine, if you're willing to manually focus, what you should do is watch craigslist for people selling or giving away old Pentax cameras. I've gotten spotmatics with 50/1.4 supertaks for $50 all the way down to free. You can get an m42 to K adapter for $20, and that'll get you a very nice, fast, and cheap manual focus lens. Since you'd really only be using it when you need a lens that is faster than f/2.8, it won't matter that won't automatically stop down, just focus with it stopped down anyways. For that matter, someone on this list might even have a spare. Hell, if I start jonesing for a K-5 any harder, I might be willing to sell my spare. -- 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.
