> On Nov 2, 2019, at 12:44 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 08:23:20AM -0400, John wrote: >>> On 11/1/2019 19:39:33, John Francis wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 04:58:45PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote: >>>> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>>> >>>>> I would think a full frame 24-70/4 is very unlikely in that Pentax >>>>> already offers an excellent 24-70/2.8. >>>> >>>> Yeah, it's excellent. But it's also huge compared to the 28-105. >>> >>> ... and with a price tag to match! >>> >>> I could never quite persuade myself I needed the older FA* 28-70/2.8 >>> to go along with the FA* 80-200/2.8 that was my main lens. But that's >>> because I was mostly doing motorsports photography - very different >>> from the sort of thing that Juan does - so the 28-105/f4.0-5.6 I had >>> met my needs for the occasional pit or paddock shots. >>> >>> I'm waiting to see whether the announced flagship APS-C camera body >>> makes it all the way into production; if it does, (and assuming that >>> it has the sort of feature upgrades that could tempt me) there's a >>> fairly good chance I'll buy one last Pentax body. But despite what >>> my PDML T-shirt says I'm not sure I'll be buying any more lenses; >>> the main potential candidate - the D FA 150-450 - would add quite >>> a bit to whatever the new body (plus grip) would cost. >>> >>> >> >> I got lucky and the one last lens that I was pining away for just happened >> to fall into my lap this fall (even if I will still be paying for it for the >> next three years). > > My lucky moment came around 20 years ago, when the lens I'd always longed for > (but thought I'd never own, as it wasn't cheap) turned up on the used market. > Apparently someone who earned his living shooting NASCAR was switching from > Pentax to Nikon, as his editors were now insisting on digital images. > > I found out about this from a post on rec.photos.marketplace, which went > something like "If you're looking for a bargain, Charlotte Camera have a > Pentax 250-600 for sale for _only_ $3000", plus some other remarks which > made it fairly clear the poster meant this mostly as a humorous comment. > > Five minutes later I followed up with a post that said "No they don't ..." > > Then I had to explain to the household expenditure committee why I'd just > paid that much for a lens, especially since it was only a couple of months > since I'd picked up a used A* 300/2.8 (with 1.4x and 2x teleconverters). > > I think you were shooting with the 250-600 for the first time when I ran into you at the Long Beach race. Do you still use it? How is it on digital? > -- > 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.
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