Surely someone wants an A 50/1.7? Great little lens and the aperture coupling makes it a breeze to use compared to earlier generations.

Wow, I would have thought someone would have jumped on the whole bundle. What a deal for a camera and lens that are incredible!

Well, the lens is still available and if you like street or landscape it is perfect.

The FA Limited lenses stand apart from all others.

The DA70 is also very nice I am told. But re-read the first sentence again. The last lens I would ever sell is my FA77, which I bought thinking it would be good only for portraits. Good thing I am still learning and know when I am wrong.

If you have the money, just buy the FA77.

Now there's an idea... put me in a bestiary.

Do you have pictures of this lens? If it is not in the list I would surely like to add it and you would be credited for discovering a new species!

I go further and say it's really the only reason to shoot Pentax. Value for money used to be a second reason, but Pentax are pricing themselves out of that realm.

You could find a Vivitar 28mm f/2 for cheap enough. But I wouldn't shoot is at f/2 except in an emergency. In fact you could get a Vivitar Series ! 28mm f/1.9. That's the fastest I know.

I went from a backup K100DS to a K-x with the K20D as my main camera. I was expecting to be blown away by the K-x high ISO, which is very important for much of my work. (The rare stuff when I actually get paid.) Small size and light weight are also important to me. So I thought the K-x would be perfect.

Instead, when leaving the house with one body, I take out the K20D.

The ergonomics is way better, the viewfinder much more usable and the images look better. I even did a comparison shoot because I couldn't believe what I was experiencing. The K-x shots have a more "plasticky" look, much poorer colour balance (though that can be corrected) and do not take the same amount of post-processing well. Though they are less noisy I can apply noise reduction to the K20D images if I need to, and the result is better to my eyes.

Now that I have had that experience, I am sceptical of the K-5 in the same way.

I have the DA12-24 and the other two FA Limiteds and can easily say that, while the zoom is a great wide angle, the Limiteds are in another class altogether.

Besides this, I have to mention that framing the subject properly results in superior IQ to cropping. The more pixels working to secure the image you want, the better. This difference is not subtle but very noticeable, and only gets worse as you manipulate the image.

It's true that if you are doing a landscape with a wide lens, the way to "anchor" the composition is to be sure the foreground contains a near object. Really this then becomes an "environmental portrait" of that object, since it is prominent and the rest of the scene becomes context.

Look at the glossy photo magazines and they are full of such photos. It is the landscape equivalent of the extremely thin DOF shot... looks dramatic but it is not an expression of how we normally look at a scene. I like them well enough, but for regular day-to-day landscape shooting prefer something less showy and more representative.

Shooting with a fish-eye is like dancing with yourself.