I think Pentax's lens line up would be perfect if it included the following lenses.




The ones that I'd be particularly interested in would be:




Some of the lenses are on the roadmap but not much is known about them yet. The There is a 35mm Macro and a 35mm which I'd expect to be similar to the FA35F2 (they may even make it F1.4 to be equivalent to the FA50F1.4 but for digital. Everyone knows the DA*55F1.5 fits nicely in place of the FA* 85F1.4

Something equivalent to a 135mm is definitely missing and as such I've added the imaginary 85mm F2.8 as is a 200mm equivalent lens which would be 135mm. Long telephoto primes are sorely missed and I think 500mm and 600mm lenses have their place but would be too expensive for most. A 400mm F5.6 would fit nicely and wouldn't be too big (A400 F5.6 as an example).

300mm equivalent will be catered for with the DA* 200mm F2.8 and a 460mm equivalent DA*300 F4 sits just above. I don't know how useful anything above a 400mm would be seeing as the 1.53x crop factor really makes a sizeable difference and is very attractive.

Lastly a really wide prime is missing, something like a 15mm equivalent rectilinear as well as a fisheye lens of the same focal length.

So what does everyone think?

EDIT: PS. I'd also have a 90mm Tamron Macro lens in my collection.

I think that is the biggest advantage, the DA 16-45 F4 and the DA 18-55 F3.5~5.6 are both fine for landscapes as you'd normally stop down to F8-11. Where they really fall down is in low light where they are just impossible to use. I can only use my A28F2.8 and A50F1.7 indoors without a flash let alone in low light.

Manual focus without any light is very challenging though, It can be very difficult to tell if you have actually focused on the right thing.

There may be a DA35 F1.4 coming in the future. The roadmap shows a 35mm lens with SDM of unknown aperture. I suspect it will be F2 or F1.4 as it covers the same FoV as a 50mm lens on 135 film.

I should be getting the 58 AF-1 in the next month or two. Really need a fully featured external flash and the price is right on the 58. I don't like the 48 as much as it doesn't beat the Pentax 540.

If it is an LCD display then refresh rate doesn't mean anything at all.

Only CRT monitors have a refresh rate.

Sounds good, it will add to my little collection.

I am trying to get:

A24 F2.8
A50 F1.2 (have an A50 F1.7 which is close enough for now)
A100 F2.8
A200 F4 (perhaps soon to have?)
A400 F5.6 (rare as hens teeth)

Question as in title...

WTB: SMC Pentax-A 1:4 200mm

Well, a new set of pictures has uploaded to my web album First set in quite some time, really don't have much time nowadays

These are the best shots, all in Bulb mode ISO100 F8 to F11 with the DA18-55 using a tripod and the IR remote










I got there a little late, the fireworks had already started and I set up really quickly fairly far off to get some good unobstructed shots. Anyone closer had trees in front of them. Most of the fireworks were low altitude and barely cleared the trees before exploding and being blocked.

Silly really, could have been much better on their part.

I used it for my fireworks shots Works perfectly Got mine 'second hand' unused for £9!

Wireless HSS with the camera's flash as the controller is not possible. The on-board flash can't even to HSS so why would it be able to signal HSS and control it?