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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-04-2017, 11:35 AM
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I have a Vivitar 28mm F2.8 close focus and like it, I do not use it much but I have 4 or 5 others at 28mm and do not use any of them much..
My limited experience with digital photography would like to recommend the 18-55mm kit lens, with WR if possible to enable the WR of the K-5 to be complemented. This would lose you some F stops but shooting at ISO 400 with the K-5 is pretty good. There are variants without WR, DA and DAL, you can check out user comments in the lens reviews. This lens will give you images around the 28mm focal length that you will lose using the K-5 due to the crop factor at 18mm and is probably the cheapest option. Nevertheless this is not a cheap "bad" zoom!
Complement this lens with a Pentax 50-200mm or 55-300mm lens and you have a pretty good "budget" start to digital photography with autofocus lenses covering, in effect, focal lengths from 28mm to 300mm or 450mm in 35mm film terms. Not that I am knocking legacy manual focus lenses, I have many myself.
Enjoy your K-5, try not to crop your images too much as this may lead to the occasional disappointment in your images and remember that all the rules of taking good images with 35mm film probably carry over to digital.
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