"As far as my very limited experience allows me to opine, people don't like primes because they don't like changing lenses."
-- Graydon I love primes, but use a Sigma 10-20 f/4-5.6 for the wide end. I could have bought a DA 14 f/2.8 but I'd be limited to 14mm. Now if all the primes covered by the Sigma 10-20mm were available, which they're not I still wouldn't buy them because I couldn't fir them in the kit bag! My standard kit consists of the following: Sigma EX 10-20 OR Pentax DA*16-50 Sigma AF 24/2.8 Pentax FA 28/2.8 Pentax FA 35/2 Pentax FA 50/1.4 Pentax DA 70/2.4 Limited Tamron Di 90/2.8 Macro Pentax FA 135/2.8 The DA 14/2.8 is roughly the size of the Sigma 10-20 and offers very little in th way of extra IQ, it gains a faster aperture but looses flexibility in spades. But I have to agrree with JC on this, a modern prime will beat a modern zoom every time if made to the same standard. I have the DA*200/2.8 and DA 300/4 and they're just awesome!!! John -- 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.
