Godfrey recommended this tripod for travel and I purchased it. Excellent tripod.
http://www.manfrotto.us/190cx-carbon-fiber-tripod-3-section As to gear, I'm still lusting after the DA*55 and I wouldn't mind the 35mm as well. Eager to hear the news on the anticipated full frame, but not sure that's in the budget right now. I'd love the 300mm but that's out of budget as well. But I am going to do some tech clearing out. I want to simplify. I'll probably post tech for sale very soon. Cheers, Christine > On May 16, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are several pieces of gear that are very high on my list, exceed my > current budget, but depending on money availability and need, I hope to get > before too long. I'm sure that most people on this list have a similar list, > and others might actually have the gear. The only thing that differs are > probably the lines of "too expensive for now, otherwise I'd already own it", > and "inexpensive enough that I might actually someday own one". > > On my trip to Pittsburgh, I realized that I don't have a good travel tripod. > I bought the one I have now very shortly after I started using a DSLR, and it > was better than the $20 tripods that you can pick up anyplace, but still so > wobbly that I lost a lot of night time exposures to camera blur. The one I > recently discovered is the Benro A1190t travel flat. For some reason the > A2190t simply is no longer available. It is going for $142 various places, > and ends up being about the same length, and about three times the width of > the monopod that I always carry in the laptop pocket of my camera bag. > > The two lenses that are at the top of my wish list are both Sigma. The > 18-35/1.8 isn't quite as sharp as my 31, but it's probably a lot better than > my Sigma 20/1.8. It also has the versatility of a zoom, and the speed of a > prime. It would save me a lot of lens changing when photographing dance > events. > > The other lens I often find myself wishing I had is the sigma 35/1.4 art > lens. I think this one might actually even be full frame capable. The 2/3 > stop in speed between it and 1.8 doesn't seem like much, but it often means > the difference between shooting at 1/20 and 1/13 which is right on the edge > of where camera blur and motion blur become issues. I often find myself > shooting with my 50/1.4, even when I don't really have the room for it, just > because I need that extra bit of speed. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) > > -- > 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.
