Folks who moved from Pentax to Nikon FF: do you miss your limiteds?

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Lawnmower Shooter
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Re: Folks who moved from Pentax to Nikon FF: do you miss your limiteds?
In reply to awaldram, 6 months ago

awaldram wrote:

Lawnmower Shooter wrote:

Hmm, I agree the LTDs are nice, but if they really did move to Nikon I think this thread would get more appropriate responses there. With that being said, I am just now planning my K mount lens collection and I have ruled out all limiteds so far, as well as all DA* glass. From the charts I have seen, sigma is leading the pack with just about everything I would want. The Tamron 70-200 is an amazing lens too that pentax has no answer for (for that price anyways). I have been looking at primes too, but the sigma 50mm 1.4 matches any of the pentax line and is only $450.

I can't speak for AF, and pentax seems to have better build quality plus WS, but for IQ they seem to be a tad behind. The one lens I wish was better overall is the 18-135WS, that could have been a very nice one.

Just a word of caution on your quest for sharpness.

The Sigma 50 1.4 is undoughtedley a great lens probably the 2nd best 50 ish for pentax but does suffer a design flaw which gives it an onion bokeh.

This is caused by internal bokeh diffraction and can't be fixed, whether it bothers you or not I don't know but there is a reason it's $450 and the 85 is $900.!

But you do have to go to the da*55 to do better or indeed the limiteds.

Haha thanks for the warning bud. I did take along look at the 55 because it's a real beast. The sigma shows a slight lead in center sharpness @ mid apertures where the 55 is better on edges throughout. They are nearly identical @ 1.4 and 2. I actually prefer the flatter image of the 55 but it was really the price that is hard for me to ignore (almost $300 difference). I guess you are right though, I am usually more concerned about sharpness than other factors, perhaps this will change in time. WS is also very useful which the sigma doesn't have, I just wish there was more WS FF lenses from pentax.

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