I was doing some idle poking around on ebay, KEH etc. for some wishlist items and one thing that I'm actively looking for. I figure that it's worth mentioning them here in case anybody is looking to sell one of them, or has some important advice about any of these.
The one thing that I'm actively looking for is an equatorial mount. I'm planning on heading out to visit my sister and catch the total eclipse in April. At the 2018 eclipse I just used a tripod and had to keep adjusting it every few minutes to keep the sun in the frame. There are a couple of lenses on my wishlist. I don't have an immediate need for them, but they're always on the back of my mind and I could be motivated by a particularly good deal. 85/1.4 I can find an FA* 85/1.4, with hood on ebay (from Japan) for $650, which is about half of what a dfa 85/1.4 would cost, even used. I love my 77/1.8 but when photographing musicians I always seem to want a bit more reach and a bit more speed. Sigma 18-35/1.8 Now that my K-3 III is my daily driver body, and my K-1 is my special purpose body, the 18-35 would be very handy for shooting indoors and save me from swapping between my 20/1.8 and 31/1.8. 24-70/2.8 I've got the tamron 28-75/2.8 and it's a great fair weather daily driver, but for foul weather I'm stuck with the 28-105 which is generally fast enough for outdoors which is where I usually need weather sealing. A modern "long" lens. My 50-500 bigma has given me many years of good service, but its focus is a bit slow and a bit noisy. There have been many times that I've tried to photograph a critter and as soon as I tried to autofocus the noise of the lens scared the beast away. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
