On Sat, Mar 02, 2013, steve harley wrote: > > DA 35 Macro was competing with the 77 as the next most attractive > after the DA 15/4; close focus is not something i have in an > everyday lens (my 105mm macro is just a little too big for comfort) > but i have a 28mm that is pretty good, so aside from close focus i > have the focal length covered; i now have a set of four primes at > power of two lengths from 15 to 105mm
The 105mm is "too big" as in "too long focal length" or "too big to carry"? After using the 35mm a couple of days in my trial rental, I decided that it is indeed a very nice walkaround lens, but I was mostly using the 16-50 as my primary walkaround for its wide-angle capabilities and its main limitation is as a macro lens. I discovered that hitting that limitation and switching to the 35mm was annoying because I then needed to move a lot closer to whatever subject I was trying to get. So for my cruise rental I'm going with the 100mm macro (which also provides WR). -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- 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.
