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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-27-2016, 10:12 AM
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le grande adventure:)
Actually fingers too fat for the keypad:lol:
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-27-2016, 07:18 AM
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When I started on my LGA adventure, I had a simple rule. Primes needed to fit a purpose and be significantly faster than my zooms.
Consider, my base kit for my DSLRs is the following
Sigma APO 10-20/4-5.6EX DC, Tameron X-RAY Di 28-75/2.8, sigma APO 70-200/2.8 EX and a gap filler of the Pentax FAJ 18-35/4-5.
Except the 10-20 all were full frame lenses.
My primes, all MF (because when I use them I am on my time not rushing to fit my hobby into another activity where I am not in control of the activities etc...) are typically F2.0 or faster below 100mm
I began by k mount primes but started also collecting the odd M42 to fill the gaps, until I eventually had both a K mount and M42 mount set of lenses, K mount from 8mm through 400mm, and M42 from 16-300mm all primes with the shortest lens in each range a fisheye.
For me, primes are specific use lenses, either low light or artistic, hence my decision to go for fast primes, many of the M42 lenses are also presets with round at all aperture irises that also give different rendering of the out of focus range.
But the logic was to not have duplicates of many lenses. (I still do, because some lenses are so cheap I puck them it just to play a little)
When I look at the OPs list yes he has way too much overlap. He needs to sell off about 60 % of the lenses keeping only a few.
I would start with making a kit to cover the focal length ranges with perhaps a maximum of 3 lenses, pick the best for that coverage, after really trying all of them seriously , and sell off the rest.
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