Eric, If you want something that will be happy floating naked in a swamped canoe, get almost anything in the WG series, new or used.
Also take your K-5, and leave it in a dry bag unless the water is calm or you're on shore. The 16-45, splendid though it is, is not water resistant; nor is the original 50-200. FWIW, my standard travel kit is the K-5, the 16-45, the 50-200, and the 10-17 fisheye. I have about a dozen other lenses but don't use them for travel. I only take the K-5 out in the canoe when the lake is calm. Rick On Aug 6, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > 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. http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- 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.
