Hello Amy, I have it. For the price it is actually quite nice. Not overly speedy, but a pretty good focal range. On the plus side, it is fairly small and light and has a good manual focus feel (very important to me). One small negative is that the reversible hood just bayonets on to the lens and since the barrel rotates while focusing, if you try to put the hood on with the lens on the body and AF engaged, it will torque the AF motor - so you need to disengage the AF while putting on the hood.
Here are a few sample shots taken with the lens: http://www.daytonphoto.com/Galleries/gfm/imgp9393a.htm http://www.daytonphoto.com/Galleries/gfm/imgp9420.htm http://www.daytonphoto.com/Galleries/gfm/imgp9427.htm http://www.daytonphoto.com/Galleries/gfm/imgp9437a.htm Bruce Monday, October 18, 2004, 2:17:06 PM, you wrote: AH> I just ordered this lens for the *istD for shooting toy train shows. AH> It'll be my first zoom lens. My expectations are only that it not be AH> horrible, and if it's better than that then that's a bonus. I picked AH> this lens because it covers the same range as the three primes I've AH> brought to train shows in the past (28, 50, 77, for 35mm film camera), AH> it's barely larger than my 50 1.4 so it'll be unobtrusive, and it's cheap. AH> Its other potential purpose is as my walk-around lens, though the *istD AH> may be large enough that I just never do that. My P&S may live on in AH> that role. AH> Has anyone used this thing? AH> http://www.sigma-photo.com/html/pages/18_50_DC.htm AH> Amy
