Darren Addy wrote: > Rereading your original post... > I like to look at my lens line-up as a "team" that I am constantly > working to upgrade, sometimes in incremental ways. > What you are describing gives you the opportunity to upgrade yours: > The 18-55mm you have is essentially just a kit lens with WR. The 16- > 85mm is a superior lens and is greater at both the wide end and the > long end (giving you some overlap (55-85) before you HAVE to switch to > your longer zoom. > > So it would clearly be a Good Move to purchase the 16-85mm and sell the > 18-55 WR for whatever you can get for it. Now instead of a 18-300mm > range (with no overlap) you have a 16-300mm (with 55-85 overlap). As a > bonus (or maybe the entire point of this exercise) you've improved the > quality of the 18-55 range you previously shot with the WR kit lens. > > How's that for a friendly shove "down the slippery slope"? > :)
Rats. That is a very good point! I'll be making the decision later today. Thanks (I think) Darren, Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
