I came to a similar conclusion a few months ago and, after getting some suggestions here, I picked up a Sigma 18-125 f3.5-5.5 DC at a good price on EBay. I haven't regretted the purchase.....
Maybe a bit short on the long end for what you want but as a 'go anywhere' lens it's quite good. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:35 -0700, "Cory Waters" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have decided that for walking around at a place like Disney World with > your family taking those sorts of snapshots, you need to have a lens like > a 28-200. I'm willing to sacrifice the perceived loss of tack-sharp or > fantastic image quality whatever to have one fairly compact lens that has > the wide focal range that I really want on days like these. I've been > carrying the 16-50 and the 50-200 but changing lenses is such a bother > when you have all this other gack we're carrying through the parks. > > CW > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
