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Smeggy of course I am nuts getting rid of any of those lenses, but having so much lenses means that some of them are just 'collecting dust'in my shelves - regarding 50/1.2 it was though decision but 43/1.9 is more practical and got me most keepers, so Im going to keep that little limited at least unless i try Sigma 35/1.4 - and I don't mind mixing this Sigma lens in my arsenal. Having some brief experience with Sigma 50-150 - it was excellent lens - so they know how to make optically excellent glass, I'm sure.

hi, thanks... all for your advice, i will consider this again...
meanwhile:

johnha - how do you find your 20-35/4 lens, performancewise?

robbiec - I generally agree with you, only disagree in one point about K85, I used to have 2 copies of FA77 before, but I liked image quality of K85 better (if focused spot on), I think it was even quite sharper except f1.8 where FA77 prevailed...of course it could be that both 77 i had were lemons

Hi pengbai, let me think about this for a while...

Hi all,
is anybody interested in lens swap? I offer nice condition my DA17-70/4 for FA20-35/4.I can throw in Tiffen 67mm polariser with it....

reasons for this: I am scaling down my lens collection, I found that I use DA17-70 mostly in 17-35 range, I find it little too big for me and on my K5, and not least I have nice collection of 58mm filters which would be nice to use on FA20-35.

Please pm if you are interested.... I will gladly post some photos.

kind regards,
Martin

Please somebody buy this lens quickly before I do something stupid ...
Malsi - beautiful lens, maybe you can post some images taken with the lens to demonstrate its potential?...

Giorgio, thanks for the link

Wadna, John....I know it is wonderful lens, I used to own it for almost a year, however while it has great bokeh for wide angle, really nice colour rendering and almost no CA, it lacks sharpness when focused on infinity - at least my copy did. For closeups it was flawless, but my copy wasn't very strong performer when focused close to infinity even at f8 - so it is not so universal as I need....and very pricey. But I will do some test shots with my friends FA31, so I am not going to write it off yet

Hi Pengbai .... that is nice setup too, but much more expensive
I am not convinced that I will let go of that K20/4, but K50/1.2 is likely to look for new home. It is a bokeh machine, but so is the K85/1.8 and FA43/1.9 is too close focal lenght to that 50mm... if it goes for sale I'll let you know.

Thanks for your advice John, I am pretty sure I will miss some lenses, but what is the point of having them all and not using them? I am still not sure if I will go with this plan, therefore I made up this thread. I wonder what better lenses than Sigma 35 would you suggest? I had FA31 before, nice lens, but maybe better on film than on digital. Still Sigma is supposed to be at least as good as FA31 - huge, sure, but with IF and HSM and could be get for less.

if I were you I would keep the 35/2. you have 50mm twice with your 50/1.7 and 50-135/2.8, but 50/1.7 M lenses are cheap and small, if you like to keep it. My proposed lineup would be something like this:

DA15/4
FA35/2
DA*50-135/2.8
with optional M50/1.7 or I WOULD suggest something longer if you leave your ZOOM at home, maybe K55/1.8 or M85/2.

Btw. I am facing similar lens reduction, I wrote it in thread just above yours.