[vmax84]

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what does WR stand for? Was the kit lens that came with my K100D a WR?

[scratchpaddy]

what does WR stand for? Was the kit lens that came with my K100D a WR?

"Weather-resistant," and, no, only the newest kit lenses are WR. They cost about twice as much used as the regular 18-55's.

Edit: here are the different versions of the kit lens:

DA AL: The original. I believe this is the one you had.

DA AL II: Improved optical formula. All future kit lenses are optically identical to this one.

DA L AL: Same as DA AL II, but with a plastic mount and no distance markings on the focusing ring. This is the one that came with my K-r.

DA AL WR: Same as DA AL II, but with weather sealing.

DA L AL WR: Weather sealed, plastic mount. Not actually available yet, but it will ship with the new K-50.

[Racer X 69]

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Steve

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[vmax84]

There's a sale at the liquor store?!


Steve

I lol.

[vmax84]

"Weather-resistant," and, no, only the newest kit lenses are WR. They cost about twice as much used as the regular 18-55's.

Edit: here are the different versions of the kit lens:

DA AL: The original. I believe this is the one you had.

DA AL II: Improved optical formula. All future kit lenses are optically identical to this one.

DA L AL: Same as DA AL II, but with a plastic mount and no distance markings on the focusing ring. This is the one that came with my K-r.

DA AL WR: Same as DA AL II, but with weather sealing.

DA L AL WR: Weather sealed, plastic mount. Not actually available yet, but it will ship with the new K-50.

Thanks for that info!!!! Very helpful.

[vmax84]

Ended up buying this:

Sigma AF 28 80mm F3 5 5 6 II Minizoom Macro for Pentax AF 085126644277 | eBay

Think it will do for now. Thanks for all the help!!

[lytrytyr]

Enjoy the lens!

Looks like a standard zoom for film, so out to the tele end on APS-C.
If you find you need wider as well,
there are other good lenses in the 10/12 to 20/24 zoom range
that would complement it well.

[pxpaulx]

Paul, I think I was not clear enough that the problem is with my Smc Pentax 1:2.8 24mm
My kit lenses are fine and I don't need one of those.

Ya know, I keep forgetting that the quick reply copies the respective post as a quote* (it didn't used to...don't know if that is a setting that changed, but I never changed it!). So my comment wasn't directed at you, it just looked that way!

*intentionally quoted this time, promise!

[tclausen]

I have two, sitting in kit boxes in a closet,
that made my K-x cameras a few dollars cheaper
than they would have cost as bodies alone.

Same here, although bought with different cameras than the K-x.

To OP, if you are serious about this hobby, you should save up and get a good lens. You really should.

The kit lenses I've encountered in modern times (read: ever since the time when you bought a 35mm film camera, an you got a tack-sharp 50mm with it, back when dinosaurs walked the planet) make for worse optical lenses than does the bottom of a coke-bottle.....

[normhead]

The thing with the kit lens is, I have two, but you don't get anything for selling them, so you may as well keep it , just incase. I gave one to my sister when I gave her my K20D and I have the white one that goes real good with the white K-x or K-01, so I can't sell that one. The other one.... if Henry's is selling them for $40 would they give me $5 for it? And the gas to drive there would cost how much? Better to just keep it. It makes a nice front plate on one of th cameras in my display cabinet.

[scratchpaddy]

Ya know, I keep forgetting that the quick reply copies the respective post as a quote

Ah! I always wondered about these people that quote somebody in a post which has nothing to do with the quoted material. I've never hit the "quick reply" button; I just start typing in the quick reply box which is always at the bottom of the page.

worse optical lenses than does the bottom of a coke-bottle.....

Oooh, you've given me a very bad idea! I know you're talking hyperbole here, but is it actually possible?

[tclausen]

Oooh, you've given me a very bad idea! I know you're talking hyperbole here, but is it actually possible?

Hyperbole? Me? Never....

In serious, with photography through the bottom of a coke bottle, you can - at least - take pleasure from being ecologically friendly, or pleasure from having made a DIY lens, or claim a specific artistic interpretation as the intent of your shot.....so that beats the kit lenses in question on 3 fronts....

[scratchpaddy]

Hyperbole? Me? Never....

In serious, with photography through the bottom of a coke bottle, you can - at least - take pleasure from being ecologically friendly, or pleasure from having made a DIY lens, or claim a specific artistic interpretation as the intent of your shot.....so that beats the kit lenses in question on 3 fronts....

That's assuming you actually can take pictures through a coke-bottle lens. Sorry, I was a little vague. I'm wondering if it's possible to tape the bottom of a bottle to a tube and use it as a lens. This morning, I got the notion of trying to make a sort of homemade Lensbaby with an optic from a worthless, fungus-ridden JCPenney lens. Then you come along and mention coke bottles...

[tclausen]

That's assuming you actually can take pictures through a coke-bottle lens. Sorry, I was a little vague. I'm wondering if it's possible to tape the bottom of a bottle to a tube and use it as a lens. This morning, I got the notion of trying to make a sort of homemade Lensbaby with an optic from a worthless, fungus-ridden JCPenney lens. Then you come along and mention coke bottles...

Well, I guess there's one way to find out, eh?

[Racer X 69]

Do they still make Coke bottles out of glass?