Originally posted by distorted_vision hey guys/girls,. how are we all??
well, as the title suggests, i just recently purchased a k100d. its a fantastic camera and i couldnt be happier with it..at the moment i have a sigma 18-50mm f3.5-5.6 lense. As i am fairly new to digital photography, and also pentax, i was wondering what you guys would advise me to get, in the way of additional lenses.
i would love to get into macro photography , so a decent entry level lense is needed? any suggestions on models etc??
also, i do a lot of ocean/surf/sunset photography, so i would love a nice wide angle lense. i would also love a decent zoom lense also. perhaps a 3-400mm zoom?
again.. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,, as far as my budget goes, i would be buying these lenses one at a time (unless they are a reasonable price). setting a budget for AU$200-400 for each one is realistic or not?? and is it considerably cheaper to buy at online shops , compared to me walking into somewhere like TEDS or CAMERA HOUSE??
thanks alot in advance,,
kevin,.,
I have blog posts on my inexpensive gear going from $11 Abinar 28mm F/2.8 Macro with 1:4 magnification to my $190 Pentax FA 50 f/1.4 for my most favorite prime lens. You can make some references to the blog posts:
My pentax gear:
Inexpensive gear with Pentax - Hin's Tech Corner
And if you don't mind manual focusing and manual aperture controls, I highly recommend looking into M42 lens and the adapters
Bower 3rd party M42 adapter (with picture of the genuine adapter) $14.99
Pentax M42 adapters - Hin's Tech Corner
And some custom setup with manual K and M42 lens:
Setup with Pentax M42 mount lens - Hin's Tech Corner
A good pictorial guide that I have referenced in my post also.
Pictorial guide to M lenses in dpreview thread:
K100D (Super) Pictorial guide to using manual lenses [imgs]: Pentax SLR Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review
Hope these help you a bit,
Hin