[blues_hawk]

I did not use much my Pentax gear since this 2018 trip to Peru.
That was the last time K3+DA 18+135 has been my main camera when traveling abroad:













I now rather use my M43 gear when traveling: 3 bodies (GX8, G7 and GM5), 3 f3.5-5.6 zooms (12-32, 12-60 and 14-140), the tiny 35-100 f4-5.6 and 3 f1.7 primes (20, 25 and 42.5).

My K3 gets still some use when photography is the main purpose, but when traveling with my new girlfriend, my Pentax gear is just too big and heavy. I have also enjoyed the odd angles framing that mirrorless allows, be it from low or ground level or above my head when in a crowd, or in museums.

Yet, after now 2 years using mainly M43, I admit that the Pentax overall rendering, contrast and dynamic range is better, and the DA 18-135 checks these points: I can use my Pentax out of camera JPEGs with minimum post processing, whereas my M43 photography needs more post-processing, more often discarding the OOC JPEG and developing the RAW file to get the kind of 3D pop I get directly from OOC Pentax JPEG.

I hope Pentax will add a mirrorless light camera body to its offering, next year or in 2021.

I got vertigo just looking at these. Can you imagine the builders of those terraces!? Splendid use of the walkabout lens.

[blues_hawk]

The 28-200 even where it overlaps the 18-135 isn't nearly in the same league.

Hey man! Long time. Like a year or something. I somehow have two long walkabouts in that range, heavy and knockoffs that they are. I finally scored a 18-135 this year and it has only left my k-50 to give my favorite street lens some light(see bear above and deer to follow). Hope you're doing well.

[blues_hawk]

This young lady was one of three prancing around in the field in front of my blind. My k-50/18-135mm have been a part of my backpack pack all season. the fuzzy bit is a microfleece blanket/poncho I hide under. This isn't cropped, she was right there, along with two others.

(follwoup: she's looking at the orange I put on a nearby fence when the wind blew it. The three eventually bolted when a gust moved it)

[HoutHans]

Thanks, that's still a fair drive, but feasible from the Netherlands.

[cobbu2]

Aliso Creek Viewpoint, Pendleton California on the K-5

[nicolpa47]

Giant Gunerra(Giant Rhubarb) at Trebah Garden, nr Mawnan Smith, Cornwall

on Flickr

[edri]

Lots of Pumpkins with KP+DA 18-135mm

[paulh]

Crowds at the beach, Carpinteria, Calif. DA18-135 on K10D:

[UncleVanya]

Hey man! Long time. Like a year or something. I somehow have two long walkabouts in that range, heavy and knockoffs that they are. I finally scored a 18-135 this year and it has only left my k-50 to give my favorite street lens some light(see bear above and deer to follow). Hope you're doing well.

Doing great. Thanks.

[paulh]

Letting sleeping seals lie . Ventura Harbor, Calif. DA18-135 on K10D:

[HoutHans]

Letting sleeping seals lie . Ventura Harbor, Calif. DA18-135 on K10D:

Nice images. It looks like you not only have lots of seals of there, but that are quite relaxed about humans.

[nicolpa47]

In the harbour at St Ives, Cornwall

on Flickr

[paulh]

Nice images. It looks like you not only have lots of seals of there, but that are quite relaxed about humans.

Thanks. Yes, good to see everyone getting along for a change these days

[edri]

KP+DA18-135

[totsmuyco]

KP+DA18-135

Nice composition.