Keep making mistakes lately

Hi all

I think i have made a mistake, I got rid of my Da* 300mm as long tele shooting is not for me. i got a Da 12-24mm + Da 35mm macro limited + 4gb extreme III card.

I think i have made a mistake with the da 12-24mm, i should sit down and think more about purchases i make.

I just don think i will need that wide.

Do you all make decisions that you wonder about ??

Paul

Yes and it's called Sods Law

Ha Ha Ha.

i guess it is.

I prob sell lens then.

paul

I would keep the lens for a little while and see if it grows on you, it is after all, a great lens.

Selling it may be another mistake so it's best to be 100% you don't get on with it before losing money selling it.

Cripes keep the lens and use it to get perspectives your other lenses can't achieve. Put it on the body and don't take it off until you've taken 100 shots, set it at 12 mm then see what you can do with it to get close to subjects and see how they interact with their context. It's totally different to how a 35mm or 50mm lens will work.

You'll regret parting with it more I'm sure if you just get out and use it. I took my 10-20 Sigma to a classic car show and got really odd looks while I was shooting from 12" and having be careful not include my own feet.

I don't know what you've used it for but (IMO) the wide end isn't suitable for landscapes and most buildings at any distance but I find it wonderful for dramatic skies, showing whacking great expanses of space from not far way and really close shots of detail.

Use it and love it!

As for doubtful decisions I seem to have a bag full of them sometimes!

Mike

Hi marshy27 you should probably have kept the other lens because the 300mm and the 12-24mm both do different jobs.later on down the line you will probably buy the 300mm again i've done this myself as you advance in your photography you will probably end up with quite a few lenses

I am a terrible hoarder. I have never sold a lens in my life. Had some stolen though

More to the point, the 12-24mm is actually a lovely lens. I don't use it much at 12mm, but 18mm has the same field of view as 28mm on 35mm cameras, which was always my favourite prime, and 24mm is close to 35mm on 35mm. These days I seem to mainly use the 12-24mm or the 43mm and the kit lens has hardly been on the K10. I suggest you play around with it a great deal more. It'll grow on you... promise!

Kris.

You're so right Tel

Seriously though, I think it's always worth hanging on longer and giving 'that' lens a try for a bit longer (as others have said). You quite often find that you will grow to like it.

Hi all

Thanks for your responses, ill keep the lens as i have been inspired by pentaxgallery now. How is your sharpness at the edges on your 12-24mm ??

Mine seem very soft ?

Cheers

Paul

I have never really looked in a super critical way (I am not one of the pixel peeping hand wringing endlessly worrying about sharpness brigade) but have had no complaints about mine.

Have you tried a focus test? Matt said he had managed to adjust his.

Cheers, Kris.

Matt could make a nice little video on how to do a focus test/adjustment using focus charts or lego

Using a focus test chart on the 12-24 is a real pain
You really need a HUGE focus test chart (and I don't have an A3 or A2 printer)
As Tel pointed out I ended up using some Lego for the 12-24

It was a touch out on the focus. Easily corrected on the K20D though
Matt