Thanks, Bipin. I appreciate your comments about the need for a wide angle. It’s what I gravitate to anyway, though I do not have what I’d really like to have. The Sigma 10-20 is very appealing.
I hadn’t thought about the K-5 being waterproof. But it’s not damp weather for which I need a waterproof camera. I’d like something compact that I could take whitewater canoeing, where it’s given that, one way or another, your boat will get swamped, likely more than once, during the day. I need something I could hang on a thwart and not worry about it getting too wet when the boat goes upside down.. Regards, Eric > On Aug 6, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." - Amos Oz -- 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.
