On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. I don't have the best or even good lenses.
This is possible. No matter what you choose to purchase, pick up a Pentax brand 50mm lens from somewhere. From Ebay. From new. From used. Whatever. You can get an M or A for next to nothing (check Adorama, they tend to have a bunch listed as bargain, which is a fine, fine lens. Cost me all of $10.50 (with a Hoya HMC 81B [85? err, whichever] which I still use as a "lens cap" on my A50/1.4). > 2. I don't have fixed length lenses, just two zooms. Two cheapie zooms, even. > 3. Although having better than 20-20 vision, I am now near-sighted and > find getting the focusing ring in the viewerfinder sharp difficult. You can re-set the dioper in a ZX-5n, as well as use its focus confirmation beep to be sure.. I do, constantly. (sorry, but SOMEONE has to encourage you to blow money around here...) > 4. I am not using a tripod for most of my shots. (Though most are at > an aperture setting where a tripod is not absolutely necessary.) Tripod always helps, but I rarely use it, either. I have become a huge fan of the monopod, lately, but that really took some time to grow on me. > 5. It's all my imagination because I am, naturally, critical of my own > work -- I am never good enough for me. Nothing wrong with that, either. >6. Another camera system would be better. :-) Only if its got the word Pentax on it and begins with the number 6.... > I guess I won't know until I get another lens or try another camera. > Someday soon I will have my web page ready for viewing and maybe > someone can tell me what they think. The cheapest solution you can do is to buy a decent 50mm lens. It'll be the cheapest, sharpest, lens you'll own. -g. -- http://www.infotainment.org <-> more fun than a poke in your eye. http://www.eighteenpercent.com <-> photography and portfolio.
