Originally posted by aslyfox I missed that info
I only used the KP for a short period, as we were at work. I took a handful of shots with the tele-zoom lens (he got a 2-lens bundle - I didn't note what the lenses actually were! I'll ask him when I get the chance!). Unfortunately, I don't know him well enough to ask for a loan of it or the lenses - best I can hope for is maybe a 5-minute shot during a lunch-break, which isn't really long enough to do any thorough comparison!
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Not going to lie - I am very tempted to grab a HD DA 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 PLM WR RE on the credit card - I have £200 in savings, and the lens is £300 - so I could get it on credit card and pay it back next month, for a total of... let's just say £1 interest...ish.
Now, my justificaiton for this is that I use the tele more than my wide-angle lens when I'm out on about.
The mainstay of my photography uses the tele lens - wildlife and astrophotography make good use of the tele lens, and I use it in landscape and street photography too - and for the shorter focal lengths I tend to use my 50mm prime. That said, I want to try some wider-angle photography as well, so I'll probably ugprade to the 18-55mm lens too in the future - but for now, from a purely utilitarian perspective, I reckon the tele-zoom would be the most useful. I would like to upgrade them both, but I would go for the most-useful upgrade first.
It's also a WR model unlike my current tele-zoom.
In fact, I just noticed that it's one of the "recommended lenses" for the KP according to the in-depth review - so hopefully it'll show some improvement now, and some improvement in the future too!
I'm
veeery tempted... wonder how much I could get for my Samsung 50-200mm D-Xenon lens.
So, going forward (Eew! I think that was management-speak! They've infected me!), do folks reckon that lens would be a worthy upgrade of my Samsung 50-200mm F/4-5.6 D-Xenon, that will still be useful for the KP when I move onto that stage (when the time is right
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Side note: the HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 PLM WR RE has far too many acronyms.