I had to send my K10d in for repair after I dropped it and the lcd screen was cracked.

It eventually got returned to me and had been butchered. A screwdriver of similar implement had been used to prise the body open and had broken a piece on the join. Quality control is obviously not good enough. Had to send it back in and got a replacement body. Shame they didn't manage to get it wrong and send me a K20d instead.

Geoff,

I'm also undecided about whether I should go for the sigma 70-200 f2.8 or the new pentax 60-250 f4. I shoot a fair amount of football and under the floodlights the 2.8 would really help.

I think I'm going to have to approach my local camera shop and take them both out on a test shoot. That is obviously dependant on the new Pentax lens actually being released.

Mike

I shoot a fair amount of football. It's getting to that time of year when floodlights come into play a lot more. I shot a match on Tuesday and could only just get some useable images.

I currently have a Sigma 170-500 f4.5-6 lens on my K10d

The options as I see it are the Sigma or Tamron 70-200 f2.8 lens, or the new Pentax 60-250 f4 when that is released.

I'm thinking the Sigma/Tamron would be the best in the lower light, but the Pentax lens is weather proofed, which is useful. Why couldn't the Pentax be f2.8?

Ideas?

Well I'm just down the road from you. I'm in Rhyl, but can't help re clubs as I haven't been to any.

Sorry

That Pentax lens isn't going to be cheap is it? Now I've got to make my mind up between the Sigma 70-200 f2.8 & the Pentax 60-250 f4.

Decisions decisions.

& a date when they are available.

Then all I need to do is to prove to the wife how indispensable it will be, either that or sulk until she lets me get it.

So do we have any ideas of a ballpark price of one of these?

Thanks Hefty,

I'm glad you like them.

I'll keep my eye out for a suitable lens.

OK as far as I see it the lens I'm looking at would be the new DA*60-250 or maybe an FA* 80-200. I'll have to see about pricing them up.

As for budget it will stretch to a lens. That's it. No chance I'll be getting a second body.

I'm not exactly going to make a fortune from these. I currently supply pictures to the Rhyl fans website, which is run by volunteers. Both the official Welsh Premier Site and the unofficial one will take pictures but don't pay. Therefore that leaves me with trying to get some to the local papers. They will have a photographer at the game already most weeks.

Its a good job I'm not trying to make a living out of it.

Here's a link to the pictures I took when Rhyl played Bohemians in the inter toto cup the other week.

OK the football I'm shooting isn't kids stuff but it will be from the touchline.

I've wangled myself a photographers pass for the Welsh Premier league for the season.

I was therefore thinking a 70-200mm f2.8?

As for budget. It's not limitless. Depends how good I am at sweet-talking my wife.