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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
03-31-2014, 12:23 PM
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For most of your stuff, you can live and die with the 18-135. As for long lenses, for wildlife, unless you can afford a DA 560 at $7,000 the DA*300 ƒ4 with a 1.4 converter, $1400 and $600 gets you 420 ƒ5.6. The Sigma 300 2.8 is about $3500 and the Sigma 500 4.5 is about $5k. Older Pentax options will be the same or more.
A DA 55-300 would get you started, but the DA*300 with HD DA 1.4 TC is the cheapest way to get into the high quality IQ game without mortgaging the house. My own solution was an old A-400 ƒ5.6... to go with a DA*60-250 with 1.4 TC. SO the A-400 with 1.7 gives me 680 ƒ9.3... but it takes a lot of light to use it. and it's only really worked for me a few times.
A-400 from maybe 30 meters.
A-400 from 75 meters.
DA*60-250 +1.4 TC at 350mm, 40 meters.
DA* 60-250
You can spend a lot of time messing around with long glass, but there's just no cheap solution. That's why so many settle on the 55-300. It's a great lens for the price, and gets you started cheap. And your images will be good enough to sell if you get something decent. It gives you a chance to hold off on expensive glass until you explore things a bit.
As for your F 70-210, it's a nice lens, a bit slow for use with a TC it will work with a TC in good light. It is noisy enough to scarre wildlife though, and it almost rips the camera out of your hand when it locks focus.
F-70-210 images.
I haven't done a lot with it.. but
here's my slideshow... |
