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-----Original Message----- >From: Toine <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Pentax lenses I want > >My last lens, HD DA 55-300, probably makes my wanted list complete. I >do have the 60-250 which is somewhat better but a monster compared to >the tiny HD 55-300. The old 55-300 was excellent, the HD version is >even better. The other lenses on my wanted list are or were the DA35 >macro, DFA 100 macro and 08 Wide zoom. > >sample shot of today with lots of cropping: >https://www.repiuk.nl/content/imgp1852/lightbox/ > >On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 22:25, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> > On Nov 1, 2019, at 11:12 AM, Juan Buhler <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I figured I'd start a thread about lens lust. Note this is not "lenses I >> > need". I have too many as it is, covering every focal length I care about >> > (which doesn't go much further than 100 or 135mm anyway) >> >> I’ve been very lucky that in the past few years I’ve managed to score on >> several of my wishlist lenses, mostly through a combination of gifts and KEH. >> >> DA 35 macro >> FA 43 ltd >> DFA 100 WR macro >> Sigma 35/1.4 macro >> >> I always find myself wanting faster lenses, and particularly faster and >> wider, or faster and longer. It must be really nice to be one of those >> people that only does one small subset of photography, like sports, wildlife >> or landscape. I take some consolation in Moore’s Law in that as sensors get >> better I can use an f/2.8 lens in cases where I used to need f/1.4 or >> faster. Unfortunately, I now find myself photographing in even more >> ridiculous light levels and still needing faster glass. >> >> Also, unfortunately, I find myself needing autofocus more and more. The >> situation could be relieved a bit with decent through the eyepiece live view >> with focus peaking, or a split focusing screen (katzeye), but age is taking >> its toll on my eyesight even faster than on my memory. >> >> My 77/1.8 is still one of my favorite lenses, but when photographing >> musicians I still want faster and longer, 85/1.4, or 135 f/2 or faster. >> >> In a similar vein, a lot of the night landscapes I do require faster and >> wider than what I have. I’ve got the Rokinon 24/1.4 which is pretty nice, >> and the Pentax 15-30/2.8, but I still constantly find myself up against >> difficulties capturing the night sky, and wanting both faster and wider >> glass. It expect that better sensors, and/or better processing software >> could alleviate those issues. In theory software could take multiple >> images, separate sky from foreground, stack and stitch them separately and >> put them back together in one clean photo. In theory, the software could >> even do something fancy with convolution and unsmear the stars. >> While I’m off topic and talking about my software wishlist, it would be nice >> if I could just point my processing software and a directory, have it look >> at time stamps, GPS, compass and accelerometer data and automatically HDR >> and/or stitch any photos that could be. >> >> When photographing wildlife, I constantly find myself up against the length >> and speed limits of my bigma (50-500), I don’t know what would be better, >> but I do know that I can’t afford it. >> >> If I was shooting APS I’d definitely want the sigma f/1.8 zooms (18-35 and >> 50-100), if they were full frame I’d probably try to rent out my body on >> street corners to come up with the money. In the department of wishing it >> were full frame, I could really use the 50-135/2.8 range in full frame, >> although a 35-100/2.8 would probably do me even more good. >> >> I also wish that I had weather sealed versions of pretty much all of my >> legacy glass. I don’t stop taking photos when the weather gets a bit damp. >> As has been recently observed, that’s often when the best opportunities >> happen. >> >> The DA40/2.8 was mentioned, and back in the days of my K-x that was one of >> my favorite walkabout lenses because it turned the K-x into practically a >> pocket camera. Like the DA35 macro, it vignettes a little bit on the K-1, >> but is still manageable. Processing software could solve a lot of that. >> Speaking of software wishlists, I wish my K-1 gave me an option between APS >> and FF, and also that the square format option didn’t store all of the raw >> sensor data so that it was useful in raw mode to save the K-1 buffer space. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen >> [email protected] -- 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.
