Hi James could you post a photo or two of the Vivitar at 400mm? I would be interested to see how good it is compared to my Tamron SP 500 mirror lens. What is a "nasty" lens, bad looking? thanks Markus
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J and K Messervy Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 7:04 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Enablement - lens advice 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
