Am I too far gone

I`ve seen post`s about LBA, so far this month I have bought;
Samsung 12-24
Pentax 18-55 Mk2
Pentax DA 55-300
Pentax 100mm macro.
Think I may have a problem.
The daft thing is I hav`nt realy had much chance to use them.

Davex.

That's tame Dave.

I had the DA*16-50, DA*60-250 and DA*300 all in one hit.

Definately a case of LBA

What are your initial thoughts about the 55-300?

Regards

Chris

Dave - think its only a mild case .

Bad LBA, coupled with CBA, leads to cupboard loads of gear and adding to it to "complete a range" or because it's "a rare example". Serious cases have to hold their equipment in an MS Access database with separate table for MF and AF prime and zoom lens, MF and AF bodies.....


Steve

Good, I feel better already

It`s a big improvement on my Tammy, which is now for sale on ebay.I am not actually knocking the Tammy, for the price it is a great value lens and it allowed me to decide if I would get much use out of that FL range. As you can pick them up for about a third of the cost of the DA 55-300 it`s a good lens to start with. Wonder how long it will be before I start needing the 60-250

Davex.

I'm feeling your pain. I thought I was over my LBA and I wasn't planning to buy anything new for a while, but somehow in the last month or so I have bought a Tamron 500mm mirror, several teleconverters including a Pentax 1.7x AF adapter, a Raynox 150, a Tamron Adaptall-2 60-300, a Nikon SB-24 flash, a Pentax 200 flash, a Cactus v4 wireless trigger set, a negative scanner, a 77mm Marumi CPL, several UV filters, and a whole load of minor accessories like lens caps. The only thing I actually needed was some of the lens caps.

Makes me feel much better Tim, What`s the mirror lens like:

I had a slight addiction to cheap 28-80 (ish) AF zooms, although that's almost settled since I bought an FA 28-90mm. This seems to be the best of the cheaper lenses in that focal range, slightly ahead of the F 28-80mm on account of the longer range.

Now it's primes - just bought an A 50mm f1.7 and I'm looking at a 135mm when I can afford one. These join a K 55mm f1.8, an M 50mm f1.7, a pair of M 50mm f2s and a Takumar Bayonet 28mm f2.8.

I ended up with the multitude of M 50s as I had a K1000 with an f2, then bought an ME Super with an f1.7, and then saw another cheap f2 which is a great fit on an old MV1 I had lurking in the wardrobe...

Hasnt arrived yet! I only bought that a couple of days ago. It was hovering around the £60 mark for a week and I got it for £105. It includes a 01F 2x teleconverter, an OM mount, a Nikon mount, and a PK mount. One of the reasons I went for it is that in the single blurry photo the PK mount looks a lot like a PKA mount. Im planning on selling all the mounts and the TC and hopefully end up with a £40 lens. Maybe a free lens if the PK is actually a PKA

Ok Time for a confession of my LBA

Sigma 1 * 80 -200 APO
Pentax 2 * DA 18-55 mk1
Pentax 1 * DA 18-55 mk2
Pentax 1 * DA 16-45
Pentax 1 * F 80 -200
Pentax 1 * F 35 - 80
Pentax 1 * F 28 - 80
Pentax 2 * A 50mm F1.7
Vivitar1 * A 80 -300
Pentax 1 * K 55mm F1.8
Pentax 1 * M 28mm F2.8
Pentax 2 * M 50mm F2
Pentax 1 * M 135mm F3.5
Pentax 2 * M 75 - 150mm F4
Pentax 2 * M 80 - 200 F 4.5
Pentax 1 * M42 13 F3.5
Pentax 1 * M42 55 F1.8
Pentax 2 * M42 55 F2
Pentax 2 * M42 35 F3.5
Pentax 1 * M42 200mm f5.6
Helios 1 * M42 58mm
Carl Ziess 1 * M42 135mm F3.5
Nikon 2 * SB 80 DX Speedlights
plus loads of the usual flash triggers, stands etc etc

I think thats it there is a couple of rubbishy ones i must throw out a well a vivitar and something else

I did better than that: FA 31 Ltd, FA 43 Ltd, FA 77 Ltd, DA 14 2.8,
DA* 16-50 and DA* 50-135 in one shot.

That's silly, MS Access isn't nearly good enough. It's SQL Server on clustered servers distributed across Europe for me. Gotta keep my lens list safe.

Not really, Excel is good enough for me. I do maintain a list of items bought and sold with prices and serial numbers for insurance purposes though.

The bottom line is very very scary.