If you can stretch the 190 to 200 - me. I use it a lot for bird-life where the little critters are cheeky enough to perch within range, as they do at my daughter's place in the country! I frequently use the range 110-135 for presentations and speechy functions, where I can shoot from between 3 and 10 metres and get good head and shoulders or full-lengths of the speakers, or of the awardee and the presenter together. I've also used the longer focal lengths often enough to pick out part of a landscape to say that I find them useful. I would guess that many of my family shots fall in the 30-60 range: when I had only a 55/1.8 SMC Takumar, they all did! John Coyle Praxis Data Solutions Brisbane, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Brigham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 8:02 AM Subject: RE: Has Pentax missed again?
> LOL! Now if it turned it into a 300 then that would be fine... > > Out of interest, who uses focal lengths between 110 and 190 regularly? > And what for? I find them too tight for portraits (unless I was outside > I guuess, where I could back up farther) and not long enough to be a > useful telephoto. Same goes for the 30-60 range for me. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alan Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 15 October 2003 22:43 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: Has Pentax missed again? > > > > > > >The FA50 1.4 is lovely. Had no use for that focal length > > before, but > > >with the 1.5 factor it(or the 43) was a must. My > > unhappiness with the > > >77 has nothing to do with the picture quality, just that my > > favourite > > >lens now has a focal length that it of little use to me. > > > > And who says longer is better? :-) > > > > Alan Chan > > http://www.pbase.com/wlachan > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > > >
