you could also buy a 200 or 250mm F4 prime as a backup to fill the gap between 135 and 400. Pentax 200mm F4 prime are cheap. I think vivitar made a 250mm F4.5 which is also cheap. If you must have a zoom there was a tokina at-x 100-300 F4 that is superb. Cost more than a prime though.
----------------- J.C.O'Connell [email protected] ----------------- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 8:30 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: DA* 60-250 to C.R.I.S. The SDM motor of my workhorse lens seems to have failed after what must be about 20,000 frames. Not too bad, although I guess it shouldn't ever fail on an expensive lens that is marketed as a premium product. A few weeks back I started getting intermittent focus failures. Unmounting the lens and turning the focus barrel manually would wake it up again. I had a couple assignments, so I held onto it, figuring I'd send it out when the weather started to get bad. But at yesterday's shoot it failed completely. Couldn't get a shot off. That was inconvenient as hell, since I didn't have another lens between 135 and 400, and the Mopar Action editor likes the look I get in the 200 to 250 range. But I made do with the 50-135 and the A 400. That 400 is getting harder to focus as my eyes age, so I shot numerous frames of each shot, refocusing after every couple. Should have hung onto the DA 50-200 as a spare, but I sold it to help cover the cost of the DA* lens. In any case, I hope C.R.I.S. has the part. Don't want to go through the kind of ordeal that accompanied my K-5 repair in July. Paul -- 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.
