Hello everyone, My name is Matt and have just recently gotten into photography with the purchase of a Pentax *ist DL. I've been taking lots of pictures around town, and having the camera for less than a month I've taken over 1500 shots. Feel free to check my gallery at http://vulc4n.com/v/Photo/
Now that I have had the camera for a month I have found that I really need a lens with more reach than the 18-55mm kit lens. I don't have a lot of money to spend (maybe around 100.00) Basically, I want something thats reasonably fast (at least f4), is decent optically (something on par with my 18-55 Pentax kit lens), and a zoom range somewhere within the area of 50-220 mm. I have been doing a good bit of research and have more or less settled on a few lenses. I have been successful i finding two of them, but the third has proven rather hard to find. Here is my lens list: 1. Vivitar Series One 70-210mm f/2.8-4.0 (v3 made by Komine) [with A appature mode] 2. Pentax SMC A 70-210mm f.4.0 3. Vivitar Series One 70-210mm f/2.8-4.0 (v4 made by Cosina) The last two lenses are relatively easy to come by, as is the first without the A appature mode [can it be found with the A appature mode?]. The question is, if the first cannot be found, which of them is going to perform better? The primary use for the lens other than shooting random stuff around town will be taking pictures at sporting events. So, lots of use for high speed action in relatively bad lighting. This makes me think that the Cosina made 70-210mm might be the right way to go if the Komine made lens cannot be found. Has anyone compared the Pentax lens to the Cosina lens? I'm curious how much worse the Cosina lens is optically. For that matter, how much worse is the Cosina than the Komine? Also, if anyone has another lens that fits the bill please let me know. I'm a noob and know next to nothing about pentax lenses. Thanks, Matt -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
