I've got one of these. Still getting familiar with it. I'm no expert by any means, but I haven't seen anything like this with mine, so far. What I have seen hasn't really concerned me either. But that might say as much about me as it does about the lens...
Regards, Pete Mac in Melbourne Sent from my iPad On 19/04/2011, at 1:48, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > Yikes. That's as bad as I've seen from that site. Pixel peeping or > not, that kind of rep is going to be a problem. > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Jaume Lahuerta <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Since I was interested in the new 18-135 zoom, and more after having seen in >> person how (relatively) compact is, I was impatiently awaiting the Photozone >> test. Some preliminary comments were not very promising and the final test >> has >> confirmed the worst predictions: >> http://www.photozone.de/pentax/597-pentax_18135_3556?start=2 >> >> As a summary, I just copy a couple of notes placed at the end of the test: >> >> "Just to mention again - we couldn't believe the rather poor performance so >> we >> asked the local Pentax service in Hamburg/Germany for an assessment of the >> situation. Result: the lens is within factory specifications." >> >> "After the friction this has caused in the community I will request a >> statement >> from Pentax once again why they think that this is a valid sample." >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

