I may regret this.. er these

A memory intrudes!

Back in my Pentax days of lens swapping I owned a Sigma 21-35 for my aps.c camera. It was rather bulky, and extremely prone to flare.. but still gave good results when used carefully. I found a Nikon model for $30 - it can fill behind the 40/2 now and then if I don't just pass it along. Might be fun for sky images, unless brighter stars make ghost images 👻

One thing is for sure: I can get $30 worth of use from it, however long it stays!

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Update! Wow. 

Here is my 9/30/14 post about this lens in Pentax mount. But does the new one have the permanent hood? We shall see..  

The 21-35 Zoom-γ lens arrived 7/25. Works decently and is fairly fast, but its reputation-killer is for massive flare. I didn't get to test that. It has no hood so it's not identical to the Pentax model I had before; a hood is on the way.

Update III. One last $35 speculative leap! 

The Vivitar 70-150/3.8 persuaded me to give a 1-touch zoom a bit of credit on a modern body. I was examining 35-105mm and 35-135 options, but a 35-200mm Sigma f/4-5.6 Zoom-π caught my attention. According to the lens-db site, it's about 520g ( so 600+ with dumb Z adapter) and covers what the 21-35 doesn't!* 

We'll see if it can compete with the 70-150, given its extra weight (140g) and weaker light gathering. On the z6 only 3-axis stabilizer is at work, so I can't push this lens quite as far into low light.