It's one of my most used lenses, I've had it for 27 years with no issue other than the focusing barrel to which the filters are attached rotates on focusing, so I need to remember to set the polarizing filter after I focus
-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Mitchell <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens > >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.
