Rees wrote:
There is an old expression: If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys, or you get what you pay for. Then the expression, save for what you want applies. I purchased a Sigma, for my sins, EX DC 10 - 20mm wide angle lens, thought it was fine until I met a friend one day with a Pentax equivalent lens, we swopped lenses on like for like bodies, with like for like SD cards and the Pentax left the Sigma in the shade, I was totally disillusioned. I know there are some well known brand makers out there, like Sigma, I thought, but all I can advise is caution, save and save for the maximum quality lens, then when you have all funds, then decide carefully

Mr. Ist wrote:
A while back when I realised that a remote control would be a useful thing to have, I was surprised that the pentax ones are so expensive After all, it is just a push to make switch with a plug on the end. So I made one ~ (yes, that is a film canister for the casing:wink

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The black button focuses, and the red one fires the shutter. The idea came from Daniel Bridge's post link here (Thanks Dan!) The nice thing is that you can decide how long you need the cable to be... and even knock up a simple extension if need be.