[Cabessius]

I'm thinking it may be time for me to do a re-count or maybe even load everything into a spreadsheet to keep track of what I have, how much I paid for it, how much I later sold it for (where applicable) etc.

If you use Android, Memento Database is great for it.

[Jonathan Mac]

If you use Android, Memento Database is great for it.

Thanks, I'll have a look at that, I was planning just to use a Google spreadsheet.

[jcdoss]

...some minor trimming required...

I think I just saw your nose grow a couple of inches.

[Quartermaster James]

Are we counting individual lenses, or boxes of lenses?🤣

[Quartermaster James]

Somewhere between too many and not enough!🤣

[jeallen01]

As few as I can getaway with (which means "not many") - and a few that I don't want/need, but would be ashamed to try to sell on because they are so awful!!

[Gary H Perth]

A dozen primes and close to same number of zooms - for various complicated reasons related to LBA I have duplicates of most of the focal lengths.

I have three current zooms 10-17mm, 16-85mm and 55-300mmPLM, so on my K-70,a camera with great ISO performance, these three would cover almost any general situations. I have a couple of primes that I almost always include if I can - M28/f3.5, Sigma 50mm/f2.8 Macro and DA70mm Limited. So there is a light-ish travel kit, with zooms covering almost everything and specialised landscape, macro and portrait lenses. For wildlife activities I can grab an old Tamron 500mm cat lens with 01F to double the reach.

A few others that are optically superb, so too painful to think of selling - Tamron 52B 90mm/f2.5 Macro, A100mm/f2.8, Tamron 03B 135mm/f2.5, FA50/f1.4, DA16-45mm/f4 and Tamron 23A 60-300mm.

A few classic feel lenses from the film era that just feel like they are perfectly engineered, added to the above - Tokina 17mm/f3.5, Tamron 01A 35-80mm/f2.8-3.8, M80-200mm


So there you have three reasons to have an oversupply of lenses :
1. Good kit to do everything to current high standards
2. Optically special lenses
3. Engineering classics

[aslyfox]

added a couple more since August [ listed below in bold ]

still when compare to some, not a huge number -

PRIMES

SMC Pentax-DA 15mm F4 ED AL Limited
SMC Pentax-DA 21mm F3.2 Limited
Kino Precision Japan Kiron 28mm F2 MC P/KA
SMC Pentax-DA 35mm F2.8 Macro Limited
SMC Pentax-DA 40mm F2.8 XS
SMC Pentax-DA 40mm F2.8 Limited
SMC Pentax-A 50mm F1.4
SMC Pentax-DA 50mm F1.8
SMC Pentax-D FA 100mm F2.8 Macro
SMC Pentax-A 135mm F2.8
SMC DA * 300mm F4 ED (IF ) SDM
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ZOOMS

HD Pentax-DA 16 - 85mm F3.5-5.6 WR
HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 ED PLM WR RE
HD Pentax-D FA* 70-200mm F2.8 ED DC AW
HD Pentax-D FA 150-450mm F4.5 - 5.6 ED DC AW
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HD Pentax -DA AF rear converter 1.4 AW

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Last edited by aslyfox; 12-11-2018 at 05:15 PM.

[monochrome]

n = (x+1)

[boriscleto]

After recent acquisitions my spreadsheet is at 130 rows...

[alvaro_garcia]

Added the Zeiss Planar 1.4/85 to my collection.

[pepperberry farm]

I've added seven lenses since September, all M42... and one camera body that is now the permanent M42 mount...

[shadowjester]

Let’s see...
Three K bodies (K1000, K200D, KP), one M42 body (SP), M28 2.8, M50 1.7, M100 2.8, Sigma 18-200, DA II 18-55, DA II 50-200, HD 40 Ltd, HD 21 Ltd, SMC Tak 55 1.8, and a 127mm Ektar in a Supermatic (X) shutter (for my 3x4 Speed Graphic).

[ivanvernon]

Here is what I got . . .

[angerdan]

And it looks like I'm preparing for a Pentax Full Frame DSLR. :-)
It shows that my tastes are getting more expensive! But high prices, SDM reliability concerns, and the possibility of a Full Frame body around the corner have me looking more frequently at FA and F lenses than the top DA lenses.

Seems like your dream did come true 2 years later

Ok, so I think I may have purchased my last lens. I needed a wide angle so I ended up with a great deal on a DA 14. And of course a K-50 and two kit lenses DA L 18-55 and DA L 50-200 just happened to come along with it, but I swear that's it....I'm done.

Seems like your last lenses got company