Yes, my beautiful, beloved is gone to my best buyer zzbao who is likely to become my best companion in LBA after Rose Duclos. Rose has purchased the best of my oldie lens and I am grateful to their purchases. And I know my lens are in good homes.
Please don't flame me on how illogical and nut case I am in selling the 31mm limited. Would I miss it, hell yes. Would I look back and revisit my decision, hell no, at least not today. I played some very soft music at the moment and it may bring sobbing feeling but absolutely no crying but a spirit to fly high on ideas on what is to come. We look at the moment and the future as the last hour and my first 31mm limited are history already.
What do you recommend me as a sub-optimal replacement NOT to rival its abilities and intrinsic beauty and legends but to fill in the shoe short term until I gather my senses and skills worthy to pick it up again with better style, knowledge and techniques with hopefully some maturity as a gear hunter. I am about to trim my other primes in 24mm. I used to like 24mm a lot in the digital world. It is wider than 31mm and 28mm and I have great liking on 24mm for the wider view in street shooting but it is not ideal for portraits, not like a 31mm and 35mm which seem to do better job for street shooting while beating the normal 50mm in a tighter view.
There is no candidates that I am aware of that is inexpensive and fill in the shoes for the 31mm and what it can achieve. Hence my quest for the 31mm inexpensive substitute to do the work in the interim
Requirements
- ability to use AF for quickness into street shooting for event
- a wider view than 40mm and 50mm
- a longer view than 21mm
- a minimum of speed in f/2.8, f/2.0 will be ideal for me in K20D
- a price tag closer to and less than $300
- color doesn't matter, give me a Red, White, Yellow, no problem as long as it can take good pictures
- size doesn't matter, filter size doesn't matter, give me a rock, no problem as long as it can take good pictures
- no zoom, has to be PRIME for the best in that focal length
- no need to be Pentax, anything goes in my books for good pictures with SR in body
Please clue me in your choices. I am open to more choices and I am here to listen and please
NO FLAMING, jokes are allowed as long as it is not pointing to war flaming. We need good humor in life
Here are some of my choices not in particular order:
- Sigma 24mm f/1.8, the close up is 1:2.4, I think
- Sigma 28mm f/1.8
- Sigma 30mm f/1.4
- Pentax DA 35mm f/2.8 1:1 Macro
- Pentax FA 35mm f/2.0
- Komine 28mm f/2.0 CF in K or M42
- Kiron 28mm f/2.0 in K or M42
- Carl Zeiss Flectogon 35mm f/2.4 (m42)
You can reference my current focal length in primes and zoom in this page:
Last edited by hinman; 01-06-2009 at 10:02 PM.