I've been offline the last week and marked my inbox as read. In the meantime I found a nice copy of the Tamron 18-250. What a beauty! It's not DA* or limited quality but it's a very pleasant surprise. Why Pentax dumped it's DA18-250 version is a mystery to me. It outperforms the DA18-55 and DA50-200, I think it's somewhere (or very close) in the DA16-45 and DA55-300 class which results in a excellent walk around lens for holidays etc. Even 250mm is surprisingly good.
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