> > This rampant enabling is one of the reasons I was never into > nature photography. A street kind of guy can get by with a > 35mm and 100mm (or the digital equivalent) real well. >
but they have to be Leica... -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of graywolf > Sent: 06 June 2007 15:52 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: My GFM wrap-up (pretty long, probably boring) > > This rampant enabling is one of the reasons I was never into > nature photography. A street kind of guy can get by with a > 35mm and 100mm (or the digital equivalent) real well. > > And speaking of digital equivalents, I now have one of those > almost mythical 35 to 400 f1.4 lenses. It is actually a 6.6 > to 86 f1.4 macro TV zoom lens with a built in 2x converter so > it will go to 800mm eqv. Only problem is I can not figure out > how to mount it on my Oly. Coverage would be OK if I could. > Anyone have a EVF digital with broken lens and a 1/1.8 or > smaller sensor they want to sell very cheaply? > > -- > graywolf > http://www.graywolfphoto.com > http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf > "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" > ----------------------------------- > > > mike wilson wrote: > >> From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Date: 2007/06/06 Wed PM 02:06:29 GMT > >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: My GFM wrap-up (pretty long, probably boring) > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Mark Roberts" > >> Subject: Re: My GFM wrap-up (pretty long, probably boring) > >> > >> > >>> Doug Franklin wrote: > >>> > >>>> Mark Roberts wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Yep. Gotta get me a 200mm macro. No doubt about it. > >>>> I've been looking for an FA* 200/4 Macro for several > years. Finding one > >>>> is hard. Coming up with the coin for one is harder, > since the few times > >>>> I've seen actual prices it was around US$ 1,400. As > much as I'd like to > >>>> have one, I just can't justify that much cash for a > lens, since I don't > >>>> get any income from my photography. > >>> Sigh. I came to the same conclusion about the FA*200/4 macro: Just > >>> can't justify that much money considering how much I'd > use it (even if > >>> I could find one). I suppose I might come across an A*200/4 Macro > >>> (which is what Mark Cassino uses) at a more reasonable price, but > >>> they're still pretty rare. > >>> > >> I totally lucked out on my FA200/4 Macro. > >> I got home from GFM a couple of years ago with the idea of > aquiring one > >> fairly high on my list of wanted lenses. > >> I think Tom Reeses has one, and spoke very highly of it. > >> Anyway, my local dealer got involved in the search, they > got the Regional > >> Pentax rep involved, and eventually they found one in a > rep's kit from > >> somewhere in the USA. > >> It was shipped to Canada, where PCI did a refurbish on it > and sent it on to > >> my local store for pickup. > >> I think I paid less than Can$1400.00 for it as well. > >> I recall that I had budgeted about double what I ended up > paying, and so > >> decided that I could afford an A600/5.6 that came up on > eBay shortly > >> thereafter. > >> It was a good year. > > > > Mark, do you think you could manage a PDML Hate List as > well as the Quote one? > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > > > > > -- > 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

