New to the forum, wanted to say hi

567 posts
16 years

Posted 17/02/2010 - 16:57 Link

Hiya All,

My wife and I have had a K10d for a few years, but only had a sigma 18-200mm zoom lens on it, and it never really grabbed me. I got to thinking that maybe it wasn't the camera I disliked, but rather the lens.

Well now, I did a very quick impulse buy from the bay of a 50mm Auto Chinon f1.7 and I now know it was the lens! Wow, what a difference! This realization has given me a horrid case of LBA (lens buying addiction)! In the past month my collection has grown to:

Primes:
24mm Miranda f2.8
50mm Auto Chinon f1.7
50mm FA50 f1.4
135mm SMC Pentax f3.5
500mm Tamron SP 55BB mirror lens

Zoom:
Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3

The FA50 f1.4 is my only autofocus acquisition and I was real close to pulling the trigger on a Pentax A-50mm f1.2, but its was too hard for me to rationalize paying 2x the price of the FA50 for a 10 year old manual focus lens. Anyways, just wanted to say hai all! Hope that I've not come across as too crazy

K-5; Siggy 10-20 f4, 30mm f1.4, 18-50mm f2.8, 70-200mm f2.8; Tammy 400mm f4, 500mm f8

techno-termin... techno-terminator

4141 posts
16 years
Glasgow

Posted 17/02/2010 - 18:07 Link

Hi there

And welcome - there are many folk here with the same terrible disease of LBA so I think you'll feel quite at home

let the education continue

proud owner of a couple of cameras and a few bits and bobs

bforbes bforbes

6913 posts
17 years
Co. Durham UK

Posted 17/02/2010 - 18:29 Link

Hi and Welcome to the Forum. I'm sure you don't come across as crazy at all. Maybe more than normal for here.

Barrie - Too Old To Die Young
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Father Ted Father Ted

2562 posts
18 years
Wirral

Posted 17/02/2010 - 18:34 Link

Hi and welcome.

Getting there! Thanks to you guys

Pentax K3ii, Pentax K10d, Kit lens ( 18-55mm ), 50mm f1.7 lens, Tamron 70-300mm lens, Prinzflex 70-162 manual lens, Various old flashes.

pink pink

1249 posts
16 years
Warwickshire

Posted 17/02/2010 - 19:11 Link

hi and welcome Darren

This is the best place to be for pentax

James

tomkeet tomkeet

1082 posts
17 years
County Durham,
England

Posted 17/02/2010 - 19:38 Link

Hi and welcome to the Forum.

Regards, Tom

K-1ii,K-3iii's.
SMC PENTAX-F 1:2.8 28mm, HD Pentax-D FA* 1:1.4 50mm SDM AW,
SMC PENTAX-D FA MACRO 1:2.8 100mm WR,
SMC PENTAX-DA* 1:4 300mm ED [IF] SDM,
SMC PENTAX-FA* 1:4 600mm IF & ED,
HD PENTAX -DA 1.4x AW AF REAR CONVERTER,

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CoDa CoDa

1384 posts
17 years
Bedford

Posted 17/02/2010 - 20:22 Link

Welcome to the home of the LBA disease or the forum as its is properly called.

Colin

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)

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bwlchmawr bwlchmawr

3447 posts
16 years
Somerset

Posted 17/02/2010 - 20:34 Link

Welcome. If you have half as much fun and learn a tenth as much as I have then...well, you know what I mean. You've chosen very well. This site ticks all the right boxes.

Pentax people are the nicest people!

Best wishes,

Andrew

P.S. Oh dear. I see there's no point in warning you about the acquisition of manual focus prime lenses. You're already smitten! (I'd love a Miranda 24mm, but the prices on evil-bay are mental!)

Best wishes,

Andrew

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