On 11 Mar 2005 at 22:15, David Oswald wrote: > Ask again in a > year after the excitement over the DSLR has waned a bit.
A year+ and nothing's changed for me, the excitement turned into utility and that never wore off. > One that I think I'll probably get rid of is my 17-28mm fisheye; I > rarely used it on 35mm, and it seems strange putting a 17mm fisheye on a > body that magnifies it by 1.5x. ;) Not-so-wide fisheye? Wierd. It can be corrected to a rectilinear view quite easily using a PS plug-in so do consider that before you rid yourself of it. > I will > probably also get rid of my 80-320. I can't hand-hold it effectively > past 200mm, when mounted on the *ist-DS. In its place I'll probably get > myself a 135mm f/2, which on the *ist-DS will have an equivilancy of > 202mm. Did you mean the f2.8? > I would also like to sell off my "kit" lens in favor of the > 16-45mm f/4. Big price difference, but maybe the fisheye can help to > offset it somewhat. Maybe but just remember that if you do swing back to film at any stage the DA lens is pretty much useless on a full frame body. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
