If you can live with manual focus, there's the good old 70-210 F4. I've seen them going for 30-50 GBP. So good value, reasonably fast and quite compact.
Chris On 18 December 2016 at 20:14, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > >> >> > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
