Originally posted by Sammy Hello, I am a new member and hoping you can help me out!
I just bought a Pentax K50 kit which includes a 50-200mm 2nd lens. Upgrading from very good Olympus point and shoot. The 200mm will not get up in trees to shoot birds, which you all already knew! I have 30 days to return. QVC also has a Canon kit which includes a 75-300mm 2nd lens. I like that Pentax is WR and also capability to use AA batteries. If I ever did buy a 300mm is there a need for the 200mm also? How about the 1.4x Pentax teleconverter added to 200mm? I just bought this expensive camera and it is not doing what I want, other than focusing way faster than my Olympus. Which I know is huge! A lot of time the birds at my feeders would fly away before point and shoot would focus. Pictures are comparable. DSLR cost 3x more.
I am using AUTO and when I crop picture loses sharpness.
Any advice?
New to DSLR. Had an Olympus OM-10 film camera in 80's and loved it.
Thanks, Sammy
If I were you I'd go for an old manual 300mm lens instead, there are a lot of cheap and good lenses out there, the tamron adaptall II, tair, pentacon, all good quality lenses that can be found for around $150 or so. If you are comfortable with manual focus that is. but with CIF you should be fine and many times faster than the screwdrive AF.