lens selection and reviews:
At the moment, most of the lenses I can’t afford on my wish list are
made by sigma. If sigma were weather resistant and sold their entire
line for K-mount Ricoh might sell a lot more bodies and fewer lenses.
28-105
I picked up the 28-105 so that I'd have a weather sealed standard range
zoom for use outdoors. Years ago I got a lens in this range and it
pretty much covered all of my needs at the time. It seems to be
reasonably sharp.
When much of my photography is in challenging light, I end up using
primes or my 28-75 far more often. Due to lack of space, while we have
nice weather, I've taken it out of my camera bag.
In not as nice weather it is my daily driver outdoors lens.
Tamron 28-75/2.8
This is my moderate light daily driver. Not weather sealed or as sharp
as the 28-105, not as much range, but a lot faster. If I had the money
for the 24-70 I’d probably have one.
15-30
The 15-30 is a nice lens, but it is huge.
DA 35/2.8 macro
This lens nearly works as a FF lens, there is some slight vignetting in
some circumstances which can be alleviated with a slight crop.
DFA 50/2.8 macro
I expect that I would use this lens a lot for a single walk around the
woods prime.
DFA 100/2.8 WR macro
Very sharp, very nice, bought one to supplant Tamron 90/2.8 macro
because a lot of my macro work is outdoors where it can be wet.
FA 50/1.4
In many ways this lens works very well. It is much better on FF than on
APS. However, it seems to show a bit of weakness in the coatings.
DA 55/1.4
This lens needs a sunshade that is meant for FF use. It seems to impinge
on the corners of the image.
Rokinon 24/1.4
I wish this lens had autofocus, or at least that the live view worked
better. It’s a great lens, particularly for astrolandscape photography.
18-250
While this lens is great on APS, it has an internal shade that makes it
always crop to the APS sensor.
55-300
This lens works well at the wide end and at the long end, but crops in
the middle.
50-500
My old sigma 50-500 is still reasonably sharp on the k-1, and still has
nervous bokeh. It also lacks weather sealing.
FA 80-200/2.8
31/1.8 ltd
77/1.8 ltd
Sigma 20/1.8
Much more interesting on FF than it was on APS. Since getting the
Rokinon 24/1.4 as a fast wide lens, I wasn’t using it as often and
loaned it to a friend.
Lens wish list:
Camera bag:
My fastpak 350 is nearly the perfect bag for my APS kit, but doesn't
seem to work so well for full frame. I have not yet figured out what my
standard kit is, or how I want to carry it.
Flash:
My Metz 58 flash stopped working properly with the K-1 until I upgraded
the firmware.
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