It has been a busy work day. I'll try to play around with the lens after work. Hopefully I can give good opinions on the SDM and focus speed - even though I am one to usually focus manually. I'll also compare it's handling to the DA 16-45/4 since I have that lens.
-- Bruce Tuesday, August 7, 2007, 2:32:42 PM, you wrote: JvW> Hi Bruce, JvW> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:28:57 -0700, Bruce Dayton wrote: >>The lens is in my possession. I picked it up about 2 minutes before >>the shop closed. Unfortunately, it was too late to do much with it. >>I have put it on the K10D and played around with the SDM and general >>zooming. JvW> OK, great! >>If anyone has any questions, let me know - what I can't tell >>you yet is my impression of image quality. That will have to wait >>until at least tomorrow. JvW> Understand, like most people I guess, I am fairly confident JvW> that the image quality will be OK (as a minimum :-) JvW> What I am interested in is the speed and accuracy of JvW> the SDM focusing, and the (lack of ?) sound perhaps. JvW> I am expecting the 50-135 in the next few days, so I can take it on a 3 week JvW> holliday in ten days or so, and really use it in the field :-) JvW> The 16-50 should follow after my holliday in a month or so. JvW> Regards, JvW JvW> ------------------------------------------------------------------ JvW> Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

