Hello!
I have read plenty of threads on the subject but just cant get my head to form a desicition. Hoping for some help on the way, atleast to narrow it down a bit more
The thing is, i´m a student (nursing so i wont get rich after either), with in my oppinion a pretty decent lineup of lenses that perform very well when i got time and nothing changes...
Lineup:
K-5 with Canon matte screen + kps 1.3
18-55 WR kitlens (was chaper to get the house with it for some reason)
16-45/4 (man that thing is huge!)
PK 50 1.7 (maual)
Samyang 85/1.4 (A mode)
Porst 200/3.5 (manual)
Tair-3 300/4.5 (manual, PK modded none-sniper verson)
Both the M pentax 50/1.7 and the Samyang 85/1.4 i find to perform very very good. The samyang at 20/2.8 is just blowing my socks off, and the color of the 50 is just amazing!
As you can see my lineup got some decent, some good and some suprisingly good lenses, especially considering the money as i sadly have to do. Keeping my hopes up thoe, playing the lottery next week!
Now what i am looking for is something that will blow my socks off just like the samyang and the manual pentax did, but with autofocus. A dear friend asked if i could take some pictures on her wedding, end of next month, i said yes but reminded them to get a pro and not rely on my feeble attemps but that was alright. Just want some pictures of the guests and what is going on and so forth.
Now i want to perform well, and see this as the perfect excuse to but one more lens. Just one more...
Since i am a macrohead (got the cheap china bellows for my 50/1.7 for dedicated macro) i would love to be able to use this new lens as walkaround in the city, the parks, and the wild aswell as beeing able to kneel down for that "on the spot sighting". And use it at occations as weddings.
My eye fell on the 35 macro limited! It is just in my pricerange new with shipping and is limited!
Been reading up alot on the reviews and i somehow got the feeling this is mostly celebrated by those who had no limited before...The focal lenght is great, but i am worried that i will get sad when seeing what it performs in everyday settings compared to my manual ones, and fear the realy cheap 35 might just aswell do the trick.
As you probably figured i hope of the non-existant -The One Lens And It Comes Cheap- but that wont happend. Am i asking to much out of a prime when i want both walk-by macro ability and lovely folks in the distant to print? Any tips and hints would be most appriciated! The budget is realy streched a notch just over what i can afford so i realy can not go a penny over £400.
Thank you for reading all this rambeling