I wish I had a lot of great news to report, but I was only able to use the lens for a short while. The owner of the lens had to head home before I could really give it a workout.
First impressions: Nice and light, easy to carry around, quick to focus. Build quality seems pretty good for an inexpensive lens. Image quality seems good, but I just didn't get enough shots to arrive at a definite conclusion. However, along with the 16-45, the two may make a great travel combination. I'll have to spend more time with it to see just how good it is optically. It seems to be acceptable based on some of the Q&D snaps. One complaint is that when zooming the lens it extends like the 16-45, and I'm not real thrilled about that. This "feature" made me wonder if there are zoom lenses that don't do that, and do all the moving of the elements internally. I guess you might call it an "internal zoom" Shel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
