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1.) Imagine that you urgently need a zoom which covers the wide-angle range for your k-mount camera. Imagine further, that you have more than enough money to spend on such a zoom. Now imagine, that you enter a shop which has plenty of new and used Pentax glass. What SMC Pentax zoom would pick to cover the wide-angle range? F17-28/3.5-4.5 Fish-Eye FA20-35/f4 AL M24-35-/f3.5 M24-50/f4 A24-50/f4 F24-50/f4 FA24-90/f3.5-4.5 IF&AL K28-50/f3.5-4.5 M28-50/f3.5-4.5 FA*28-70/f2.8 AL FA28-70/f4 AL A28-80/f3.5-4.5 F28-80/f3.5-4.5 FA28-80/f3.5-4.7 FA28-80/f3.5-5.6 AL FA28-105/f3.2-4.5 IF&AL FA28-105/f4-5.6 FA28-105/f4-5.6 IF A28-135/f4 FA28-200/f3.8-5.6 AL&IF Please name up to 3 choices (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) among the listed lenses. 2.) What 3rd party zoom lenses covering the wide-angle range would you consider good alternatives? Please name up to 3 3rd party zooms. So far the following 3rd party lenses have been voted for: Sigma 15-30/3.5-4.5 Sigma EX 17-35 2.8 Sigma EX 17-35 2.8-4.0 Tamron SP 24-48 Vivitar Series 1 24-48/f3.8 Tokina RMC 4/25-50 3.) If you were dreaming, what would be your ideal (but realistic) SMC Pentax Zoom lens for k-mount, covering the wide-angle range? So far the following lenses have been suggested: 12-24mm F4 (or even better F2.8) rectiliear. 15-30/f4 IF&AL 17-35 recilinear FA*17-51/f4 AL FA18-45/f3.5-4.0 FA*18-100/f4.0 IF&AL A*20-35/f2 FA20-35/f2.8 AL 24-90/f2.8 FA24-105/3.5-4.5 Enjoy these polls, and thanks in advance for contributing! Arnold
