Originally posted by aslyfox
good for you

Thanks!
Originally posted by aslyfox
oh oh, I see LBA in your future

Well, even before I bought this, I tossed a bunch of "hope & a prayer" bids out on ebay on about a dozen lenses. Almost picked up a couple that I lost at the last moment. (One I lost by less than a dollar in the last 5 minutes or so.) Once I get the camera in hand and get to start shooting, I'll get a bit more comfortable with higher bids on glass as I'll be more sure of what I'm looking for in a lens. I'm also hoping 7.62lew still has that 50mm prime to offer.
While I know the lens I got with the kit lens, I'm fairly hopeful that it will be more than adequate for what I intend to do in the near future. By next soccer season, I'll hopefully have improved my (probably extremely rusty skills as I've not used even a P&S camera in several years) camera skills to where I can get a nice zoom lens to compliment some action shots. (Or maybe this one will actually work just fine for that, I've no idea at this point.) Right now, the major limiting factor isn't the camera or the lenses, it's me.
(Side note, I also still have I think 2 bids out on I believe an *ist DS and a K10d as I made them before finding the K-7... My oldest just bought a film P&S from Goodwill and might enjoy a nice fancy DSLR I suppose... lol Suppose I'll have to get at least once half-decent lens (probably a zoom) to keep on the body with them if I win... GAS and LBA, anyone know today's winning numbers?)
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Very tenuously related:
I'll have to go and do a search, but as long as I'm here, how many people prefer using the battery grip with their cameras? Do you add it only in certain scenarios or always keep it on? Realistically this is probably answered elsewhere or at the very least, is better suited to a new thread. I've no experience with this sort of thing and figured I'd just toss this out here while I'm thinking of it. Nice thing is, I see the grip for the K-7 is the same one as the K-5 and I believe K-3 (I looked at it briefly last night and can't remember if the K-3 was the same or not) so if I do pick one up for the K-7, an upgrade to a K-3/5 will let me keep using it.