One other thing about this lens. It has a very nice manual focus feel,
for a autofocus lens.
Fred wrote:
I have one. I've very happy with it on digital, I wasn't very happy with
it on film. It's maximum focal length is closer to 180 or 190mm. I
haven't shot with it on film for some time but on the *ist-d I find it
to be a bit soft wide open at all focal lengths, but very sharp stopped
down one or two stops from maximum. I think it's very under rated, on
digital.
I've had one of these for some time. Actually, my wife had it, and used it
on her ZX-5n, but I never actually used it myself on a film body. However,
a few weeks ago I used it on my new *ist DS for shooting a bunch of "candid
portraits" of kids at a birthday party. Just for the heck of it, I set my
DS up as a "point-n-shoot" - I set it on "Auto Pict" (I have never used any
program mode in my life), set the DS to use autofocus on the 28-200/3.8-5.6
(I have hardly ever used af in my life, either), and mounted an AF280T
flash unit on the top, set to TTL (which is something I ~have~ done a lot
of previously, on LX's and Super A's). The lens really worked out pretty
well, considering that each shot was a "p&s" shot. I've put some JPEG
shots taken with this lens at the URL below - these are not just to
illustrate the optical qualities of the lens (for better or worse), but
also to show the variety of shots that I was able to get with a minimum of
effort (and a minimum of thinking - <g>) with this lens. (I have no record
of the exposure details for these shots - focal lengths and apertures are
probably all over the place - <sheepish_grin>.)
http://www.cetussoft.com/pentax/birthday/
Fred
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