Hi all.
I've been given the chance to buy a Sunagor 500mm f8 telephoto lense with M42 mount and K mount converter. It's a "normal" telephoto rather than a mirror lens.
What are these lenses like? Anyone had any ecperience? They only want £20 so thought it worth a punt - but bearing in mind how large it is don't want it to just sit around in a draw not being used if it is not a reasonable lens.
Cheers
Donut

[quote="ericp"]

I have to admit it would be nice if there was a 17-70 2.8 but such is life.

[quote="AdrianP"]

Tamron or Sigma do a 17-70 f2.8-f4 which is half the proposed price of the Pentax

Donut

Can anyone recommend a web site that reviews older lenses. I've looked on dpreview and can't find what I'm looking for.
I have just bought a Tokina 28-105 for a realy good price and although heavy seems to be what I'm loking for as a general walk about lens. I was just wondering if I could get some opinions on this lens and any known issues with it's performance.
Regards
Donut

Unfortunately the 24-90 is out of my price range. Anyone compared it to the Sigma 17-70 or Pentax 28-105? These are my current favoured options.
Cheers
Donut

Thanks for that guys.
How much should I be able to pick up a Pentax 24-90 for?
Also how good it the Sigma 18-200. Someone has a secondhand one on the forum

Out of interest - what would people think is the "modern" equivalent to this lens? As stated before on the forums, I'm looking for a reasonably priced (<£250) walk about lense and this range (although this one is not quite wide enough) would be ideal as I have an 18-55 kit, and 70-300 telezoom.
Ideal lens would be a 24-135 or 18-125 type of thing
Donut

Thanks for getting back to me Simon.
Sorry to be a pain but I assume that you shoot in RAW. In which case what software do you process with? From the "natural" look of many of your images I assume that postprocessing is minimal......I'm struggling with RAW processing and have more or less given up and reverted to JPEG. It just seems to take quite a while sitting at the computer to edit a RAW when my JPEGs (using grads and polorisers) look OK - not a patch on yours but I don't think thats anything to do with the software - more a user issue
Cheers
Richard

Simon, I like your images and recognise many of the locations as I live in the middle of the N.Wales coast. Which camera do you use and are most of the images taken with the 17-70. I use a K100D and am looking to upgrade my kit lens - was looking to get something a bit longer than the 17-70 but if your images are taken with one I may sacrifice the extra length.
Regards
Richard

If you are using Windows XP can'y you just drag and drop the files from the hard ddrive to the DVD writer in Explorer?

I have the very same lens and paid £89 so Chris's offer should be snapped up. It is a really nice budget telezoom with a useful 1:2 macro. I really like mine. The only reason it doesn't stay fixed to my K100D is that I need a wider angle so use my kit 18-55.
Donut