Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-22 Thread Larry Colen
John Francis wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:41:08AM -0500, John Francis wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:08:46AM +, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 17/12/16, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the niche of my 18-250,

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-22 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:41:08AM -0500, John Francis wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:08:46AM +, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > On 17/12/16, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: > > > > >Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the > > >niche of my 18-250, being

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-19 Thread Ken Waller
.mitch...@which.net> >Subject: Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens > >If you can live with manual focus, there's the good old 70-210 F4. >I've seen them going for 30-50 GBP. So good value, reasonably fast and >quite compact. > >Chris > >On 18 December 2016 at 20:14,

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Chris Mitchell
If you can live with manual focus, there's the good old 70-210 F4. I've seen them going for 30-50 GBP. So good value, reasonably fast and quite compact. Chris On 18 December 2016 at 20:14, Larry Colen wrote: > > > Steve Cottrell wrote: >> >> On 17/12/16, Larry Colen,

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Paul Stenquist
I don't know. The 70/200 is obviously good and a stop faster than the 60-250, but I already have the latter. I may sell it and the 50-135 some day, but I'm not in a hurry. Paul via phone > On Dec 18, 2016, at 11:25 PM, Larry Colen wrot > 59-145 > > Paul Stenquist wrote: >>

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Larry Colen
Alan C wrote: "Interesting. I've found that Nicole's 55-300 is quite pleasantly sharp." I agree but at f8 the 100-300 is just as sharp. Unfortunately, most of the time that I'd be using it would likely be doing things like photographing musicians, in which case I wouldn't want anything

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Larry Colen
Paul Stenquist wrote: The 60-260 vignettes a bit on full frame, but It's not enough to trouble me. It's been my go to lens for years now on aps-c and full frame. It's excellent. The 150-450 is astounding. But it's much bigger and heavier. If you're serious about shooting critters, go for

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Alan C
m: Larry Colen Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 6:03 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens Alan C wrote: Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best bet but it is not cheap. You could add a 1.4x too! Pa

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Paul Stenquist
The 60-260 vignettes a bit on full frame, but It's not enough to trouble me. It's been my go to lens for years now on aps-c and full frame. It's excellent. The 150-450 is astounding. But it's much bigger and heavier. If you're serious about shooting critters, go for the 150-450 and a good

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Larry Colen
Alan C wrote: Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best bet but it is not cheap. You could add a 1.4x too! Paul had great success with this combination. I have an FA 100-300 which I used before I acquired an HD 55-300. Despite the glowing reviews for the

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Alan C
Read this (right down to the end). https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/da--60-250-modification-for-full-frame-56581 Alan C -Original Message- From: Bill Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 5:50 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Bill
On 12/18/2016 9:42 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: The 60-250. You can also modify it to cover FF perfectly. Seems like a no brainer to me. The 60-250 crushes the 55-300. Well, that answers my previous post on the subject. A word to the wise about that lens. It is an SDM, my copy failed twice. I don't

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Bill
On 12/18/2016 9:23 PM, Alan C wrote: Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best bet but it is not cheap. You could add a 1.4x too! Paul had great success with this combination. I have an FA 100-300 which I used before I acquired an HD 55-300. Despite the glowing

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Zos Xavius
The 60-250. You can also modify it to cover FF perfectly. Seems like a no brainer to me. The 60-250 crushes the 55-300. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Alan C wrote: > Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best > bet but it is not cheap. You

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Alan C
Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best bet but it is not cheap. You could add a 1.4x too! Paul had great success with this combination. I have an FA 100-300 which I used before I acquired an HD 55-300. Despite the glowing reviews for the 55-300, I have found

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Larry Colen
Steve Cottrell wrote: On 17/12/16, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but will still fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. The da 55-300, despite

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread John
On 12/17/2016 9:33 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Is there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? No. You can have better or you can have not too expensive, but not both. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread P. J. Alling
So you're effectively looking for something like 28mm to something between 300mm and 400mm.That's not too big... Well unless someone has repealed the laws of physics that's not going to happen.I don't think that can be made compact or light weight. There is the FAJ 75-300 f4.5~5.6,

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:08:46AM +, Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 17/12/16, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the > >niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but > >will still fit in my

Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens

2016-12-18 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 17/12/16, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: >Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the >niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but >will still fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. >The da 55-300, despite nominally being an