The new kit is coming together, both old and new!
Several old kits contributed to filling in the blanks:
- Pentax primes lenses are available in many focal lengths from 28 to 200mm, but the four shown here are likely to see the most use.
- Several T-mount teleprimes have been in the closet, and have seen time with many caneras over time. The Hanimex 400 and Quantaray reflex 300 are oldies but goodies! My Sakar 500/8 mirror lens isn't worth the trouble though.
- The Z-native set will be complete tomorrow with the 16-50's arrival. The 50-250 and TTartisan 17mm arrived today.
I had contemplated a couple of other primes at the wide end, or perhaps the 12-28pz ..but the budget stopped at a used 16-50mm. That will do just fine, for now.
The last lens is a heavy one, and all manual in operation. But at times, the Focal 80-200 f3.5 could rest its 900-gram bulk on a tripod and play quite nicely with the z50!! It even has 1:2.55 closeup skills!
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Note that many of these lenses are fx not dx designs (and the DA Limited 40 and 70mm actually do fine on 36x24 sensors)! Perhaps a larger Z body will find a home here some day. Again though, the z50 will do nicely - for now.
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