Sep 7, 2013, 14:53
(Sep 5, 2013, 20:55)Rikstwinkle Wrote: Hey thanks for the pep talk stikin2pentax. I do adore my pentax to be fair just thought the bundle was a bit odd but I suppose they make more money from people like me. Do you have an additional lens or equipment. I'm wondering what my next lens might be. About to post my first attempt at night photography in critique
Yeah, the new direction Pentax/Ricoh appear to be taking seems to be decidedly money orientated but hey, that's my personal beef and we'll nay go there.
My first Pentax, the K10D, came with a standard 18-55 lens and a Tamron 70-300. I later added a Teleplus X2 converter to the bigger lens in an effort to pull me in closer to the wild side of life but the cost in stops and resulting quality of images didn't quite work out as I imagined things to be. When the K30 hit the market I was 'in like flint' with my order (and had to wait until a white body became available) and figured that I'd use the K10D for landscapes and hooked it up with a second hand 16-45 lens. I then figured that to get the best out of the wild side of life with the K30 I should perhaps drop the converter idea and sink further hard earned beer tokens into a 150/500 Sigma which I eventually did, and regret not one bit!
Don't get me wrong m'man as I'm a 333 man (the Devil doing a seriously half assed job) and mess up far more than I succeed, but my humble kit has far more potential than I'm anywhere close to exploiting to the full...and it'll wait patiently until I learn how to meet it all on a level playing field.
May the focus be with you