The 18-250 is available in both Tamron and Pentax brands. The only differences are look and probably in K-7 case, auto CA etc. correction. This zoom is also well known as being pretty damn good for what it is (a do it all lens).
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Joseph McAllister<pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > On Aug 1, 2009, at 13:35 , Cory Waters wrote: > >> I have decided that for walking around at a place like Disney World with >> your family taking those sorts of snapshots, you need to have a lens like a >> 28-200. I'm willing to sacrifice the perceived loss of tack-sharp or >> fantastic image quality whatever to have one fairly compact lens that has >> the wide focal range that I really want on days like these. I've been >> carrying the 16-50 and the 50-200 but changing lenses is such a bother when >> you have all this other gack we're carrying through the parks. >> >> CW > > > DA 18-250 — a little bigger, heavier, and you have to keep the creep lock > locked until you up it to your face, but MUCH more versatile on the wide end > (think 27mm vs 42mm) > > Joseph McAllister > pentax...@mac.com > > There is no off position to the genius switch. > Genius can, however, be observed as insanity. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
