The Pentax 16-50 mm f/2.8.could this be a rebadged Tokina lens? It appears to be a new lens offered by Pentax. Or why not get an ultra-wide angle lens? It would give you more options when shooting landscapes. If you feel that getting a lens with a different focal length (eg: a telephoto lens) is more beneficial to you than replacing your kit lens, then get a telephoto. The Nikon kit lens was quite good, though. I also wanted the ability to shoot under 4 times less light and still keep the same shutter speed. If I don't, I'll set the aperture to f/5.6 or f/8. It isn't a bad lens, but if I DO want to blur the background a bit, I want the option to do so. Personally, the first lens I wanted to replace was my kit lens. I think you answered your own question.don't get either lens.

Oh, and the 16-50 f/2.8 is the better of the two, in a New York minute. Looking at your work, I'd consider hanging on to the kit and going for a mid-to long zoom. I assume you, like most of us, aren't independently wealthy, so it's one lens at a time, maybe two in a year if we're real, REAL good. I've gotten some shots that surprise me with the 18-55, and I can't see replacing it just because the CW sez it's not 'quality' glass. My next lens may be a replacement for the kit, or may be still another part of the range to play with. I'm a Canon guy, and I have the 18-55 kit, 50mm f/1.8 prime, and 70-200mm f/4L. Seeing that you can get quality images from the kit, I'd likely move to a range beyond that, keeping the kit as my second and even third lens. I don't know the Pentax glass, but I would have to ask if the lens in question is a replacement for or addition to the kit lens. For information, please contact NYA at 20 or visit our website at work, maybe a little heavy on the post, but still good stuff. Since 1814, NYA has fostered integrity, character, and intellect in its students. North Yarmouth Academy is an independent, college preparatory, coeducational school for toddlers to students in grade twelve. “Students get to work with the text as actors, encouraging stronger personal, emotional, and thoughtful connection to classic literature.” Moreover, both seeing the play and interpreting the language in workshops with trained actors encourages students to experience multiple ways of interpreting the same material, and they can then see how interpretation can affect perception and meaning,” explained Powell. “This will invite students to both hear and see the language, which can otherwise feel completely foreign to students (particularly younger students). “One of the most important ways to understand Shakespeare is to see it firsthand,” said Powell. Afterwards, students will have the opportunity to “direct” those scenes in a workshop with the actors, who are professionally trained teaching artists. The forty-five-minute production chooses texts that inspire and incite conversation among students.

This year the Directors Lab is performing Julius Caesar, which the eighth grade is reading this semester. The Directors Lab at Portland Stage travels to schools to perform truncated stage productions of Shakespeare’s plays, then conducts workshops with the students. Through the efforts of Middle School English teacher Annie Powell and a grant from the NYA Parents’ Association, Portland Stage will hold a Directors Lab with the eighth grade class on Wednesday, February 21 from 8:50 to 11:15 a.m.

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