Originally posted by Thagomizer Great shots! We've had lots of rain here lately, but I haven't been out shooting in it! I should give it a go: results like that yours certainly worth the wet weather!
Thank you very much Thagomizer, it's very nice of you !
To be more precise it was just after the rain. The only lens I could obviously carry out was the WR kit zoom at that moment. To be honest, when I firstly bought my K5 in 2010, it was with the sigma 17-70 f2.8 - 4, I didn't want to hear anything about the standard zoom, which was not of great reputation.
Some years later, I felt the need to equip a tool following the essence of Pentax, Weather Resistance, cheap, strong. I found a used (but mint) 18-55 on the internet, for 60 €. I could compare it with the Tamron 17-50 F2.8 (RIP), it was not so bad in fact, just a little softer in the corners but better than what I thought
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For everyday use, much more convenient, and full compatibility with the camera.
For the little anecdote, years ago, I had kept it under extremely hard conditions (a lot lower than - 10°C, with the K5, in some frozen forests)
I made the mistake of exhaling on it (as I usually do to clean the lens) but it freezed instantly (see below), I kept a blurry on the lens for all the morning, and no consequence at all after that (I kept the whole set in a plastic bag to slowly reach the temperature when inside a house).
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This is a zoom I can't do without today
Pentax is the best gear brand in these difficult conditions when we can take a lot of unique photographies