no samples but the length is usefull.
You can make full portrait at 24mm and you can make a head shoulder portrait with 70mm without coming to close.

Thank you George, yeah I'm indeed a very lucky guy.
I sometimes wonder what she sees in me as well.
She is now in the States, she lives there unfortunately and that's the reason why I'm on the net so much.


She is thinking to be a professional photographer so no need for me to explain it
She could be the perfect wife don't you think, never needing to explain to her why I did bought a new lens or camera.

Like Jon say extension tubes might be the way to go, they go very well with a Pentax 50mm f/1.7 which you can get very cheap from Ebay.

The flash is another thing, you can look up many topics in the flash section of this forum.
If you want a complete pacakge Metz 48 is the best deal but not if you use non-auto lenses.
If you just want a stronger flash the Sigma 530 st (or something like that) is the cheapest flash.
Here is a good guide http://knol.google.com/k/pentax-p-ttl-hot-shoe-flash-comparison

I notice that I used the DA*16-50 differnt than the DA*50-135.
With the DA*50-135 the differnce in AOV is less so I simply take a comfortable distance and use the zoom to frame the shot.
The DA*16-50 has a real differnce in AOV so I think about the kind of shot I want and set it on the focal length and work with that, so basicly a variable prime lens.

It's all up to you how you use the lens like is said through this topic, therefore I don't think that using primes makes you think more about the shot, actually it might make you think less about the shot since you don't need to think about what focal length to use

I thought the discussing went about the DAl 55-300mm?

I can see that what I quoted might cause confusing, was offering a pentax alternative to the quote for the 55-300 not the 18-55.

Well there is a lucky girl but sadly not this weekend, I posted a photo of her here link
I would have slept good although short next to her

FF lenses fit on crop without a problem.

Dont get your head into equivalent 1.5x matter if you never used film.
24mm would be the same as 24mm on your 18-250mm no matter what lens you used.

so duh, my excuss is that I haven't slept so good in a strange bed this weekend and last night

Depends on what you want to use the lens for if it's considered suitable or not and what other lenses you've?
I think the focal length is handy for walk around lens, it's just wide enough I think but of course that's personal.
The focal length is also very handy for portrait.

8mm on APS-C is the equivellant of 14mm on 135format.

If you go further you could say that APS-C cameras can be used more often wide open then 135format.
For example 85mm f/1.4 on 135 format is fast but the problem is with 85mm at f/1.4 the DOF is very shallow.
Now the APS-C equivallant is 55mm f/1.4, at f/1.4 that one give a wider DOF and therefor can be used more often wide open.
The stop light you gain with a larger sensor can be gained largerly back here and then you can use longer shutterspeeds since the focal length is shorter.