Originally posted by Drom Beautiful image-thank you for posting it! Of course you're right, there are no good inexpensive long telephoto lenses. My problem is that I had pretty much been planning on getting a 70-200mm 2.8 and one of the *300mm pentax lenses (either F, FA or DA) to capture sporting events and wildlife. But when I went out the other day on my first birding adventure, 300mm really didn't seem long enough for birds, so I started thinking maybe I need a third lens with some length. Anyway-that's a lot of expensive lenses.
Indeed for little critters, you have to be real sneaky or real patient with a 300.
The poor man's solution to little critters is a good/fast 300 with a converter.
but alas there is no pentax star lens in the 300mm range that you can get
for $500, but the cheap zooms aren't suitable for a converter.
One combination that might shoot a couple birds with one stone
is the DA* 60-250 f4, plus a converter. that could be done with less
money than buying 2 lenses.