Steve Cottrell wrote:
On 17/12/16, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:
Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the
niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but
will still fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton.
The da 55-300, despite nominally being an aps lens seems to do ok on ff.
Is there anything even better, preferably not too expensive?
Just being a fly in your ointment for a minute - why would you consider
a lens of such sweeping focal length? Surely with the K1 having such a
good sensor, using what can only ever be an inferior lens (with such a
large zoom range) is counter-productive?
OK, I'm not looking for a full frame equivalent of the 18-250, in a
sense I already have one, the sigma 50-500. For what it is, and
especially what I paid for it, it's an awesome lens, but it falls in the
"way too big" category. It's reasonably sharp, but the bokeh is rather
unpleasant, and it's not WR. There are reasons I really want a 150-450
even if I can't afford one.
I still do have my 18-250, and when I go for a bike ride, I tend to put
that on the K-3II and that combination does a great job for an all in
one camera, except for the WR bit, and I don't tend to decide the rainy
days are perfect for a bike ride anyways.
The 55-300 seems to pretty nicely fit the bill. It's a reasonable size,
would be relatively easy to carry around, and it seems to be pretty
sharp, probably sharper than cropping my 28-105 down by a factor of
three (which would turn the K-1 into about a 4 MPix camera). I'll post
pictures soon, it seemed to do a decent job.
There is also the 60-250, but that gives up in both size and cost, I
wonder how it compares with the 70-210/2.8 in those categories.
So, I'm looking to extend my reach beyond 75 or 100 mm to the 250 or
300 mm range. Plan A at the moment seems to be a used 55-300, but
before I start looking for one of those, I want to make sure that there
isn't something that I'd really rather have.
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