I have just come from my local camera shop (a proper independently owned one. The staff are so knowledgeable it takes you an hour to buy a lens cloth because they tell you the life history of the Andorran shrew from which the pelt was harvested to contribute the fur which is used to electrostatically attract dust from your lens. The glass for which was polished by the thighs of the widowed mountain dwellers of Cambodia).
Anyway after I bought my Cokin graduated filter (which was what I actually went in for and felt silly when I asked for a 52 mm screw type one. The fount of all wisdom behind the counter then put me right and sold me the frame type with the square drop in filters! That is why I am "aspiring" and not "proper!") I happened to ask guru man if he had any Pentax AF lenses which had been part exchanged. He had! A lovely little AF 50mm prime, nice and fast at F1.4! Should make a great little portrait lens. Cost £79 which I think was OK (but bear in mind I actually have no idea about such things) At current exchange rates £79 is about 3 Euros or $5.45 or 93 Trillion Zimbabwe Dollars.
The only problem is my kids and my wife HATE having their pictures taken.
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