Thanks for the suggestions P.J. but if you notice the list was not written in stone. It was just a list I was looking for as far as keeping an eye out for those lenses. I would not purchase duplicate lenses as I was just jointing down lenses to keep an eye out for.
Thanks again.. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of P. J. Alling Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 9:38 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Newbie with DSLR and soon to be an owner of a K-R when it arrives... I'm a little late to this but looking at your list of lenses I see a bit of redundancy that might save you some money. The A 50 and M 50 f1.7 are optically essentially the same lens. You won't gain much by having one of each. I'd go for the A but if you can live with the M lens' exposure limitations it's usually available for half what the A goes for. The super Takumar 55mm is also a bit of duplication, there's not much you can do with it that you can't do with either of the 50mm lenses. However if you find one you'll probably be able to get it dirt cheap. Be prepared to pay an arm and 1/2 a leg for the 30mm it's somewhat rare as well as being very very good. It is once again pretty much a duplication of the FA f2.8 28mm, which is also fairly expensive. I would pick one or the other. The FA 28 is supposed to be inferiior to the 30mm optically but it would be so much more convenient. Odds are you'd end up using one with the other just sitting on the shelf. -- 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.
