Hello Eric, you already have a waterproof camera the legendary K-5. Perhaps you might want to add a WR lens as well for your memorable Italian holiday. And the K-5 is pretty compact too. Here is a best fit lens based on our 22-day trip to Europe (some 6-days in Italy) in 2011, considering the narrow streets, mighty monuments, tall structures, spires and expansive piazzas. The 18mm end on our Pentax 18-135 WR lens was just not wide enough to cope with the scenes. Imagine our horror when landing up at the Trevi Fountain in Rome sourrounded on three sides by narrow streets. There was just not enough space to back up in the crowded streets for that memorable scene we see in the movies.
a) Sigma 10-20 lens where the maximum use will be around the 12 to 14 mm end. b) Tamron 17-50/2.8 Lens. A brutally sharp work horse used 40% of the time. c) Pentax 55-300 HD WR - finds only about 8% use. This one can be left home if you are short on space. Regards. Bipin. -- 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.
