I'd recommend: - FA 50mm f1.4 (Not a telephoto but a great lens to have IMHO) - FA 77mm Ltd. f1.8 (It'd eat up most of your budget, but it's sweet)
I can't recommend much more because all the stuff I can think of is very spendy. Cheers, Dave On 12/18/06, J and K Messervy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should hopefully have a little money to spend on lenses and a flash soon. > > I currently have the Pentax 18-55 kit lens, Sigma 70-210 f4.5-5.6 zoom > (cheap and a little nasty), Sigma 50mm f2.8 manual focus macro and Vivitar > 400mm f5.6 (cheap, nasty and soft). > > What I'd like is a decent telephoto aound the 400-500mm range, either a good > zoom in the moderate telephoto range or a couple of good primes to cover the > moderate telephoto range and a decent super wide rectilinear zoom. > > My budget (after purchasing an AF540 FGZ flash) will likely be approx > AUD1300. I would prefer to stick with Pentax lenses, but good, sharp third > party lenses would be okay (Sigma 10-20 for example). > > Can the Pentax lens gurus out there please give me some suggestions as to > which lenses I should be looking for on Ebay, etc that would suit my needs > in terms of focal length, provide good image quality and (hopefully) be > affordable. > > Many thanks in advance! > > James > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
