That would be good. This was a lens I was giving serious thought. I like the F35-135 I picked up bu the 18-135 would be the perfect travel lens.
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:27 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19/04/2011 1:36 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> Sample variation or so it seems, though this case of the dueling reviews >> makes me think it's becoming extreme. In the good old days the Photozone >> tested lens wouldn't have gotten off the line let alone out of the >> factory. (God I feel old typing that). The fact that Pentax Germany >> doesn't seem to find anything wrong with the lens is just bizarre. Even >> the much maligned 28-200, which is pretty much the equivalent lens from >> those old days preforms better. > > There have been a lot of reports on ForumsNeurotica of people not being able > to get sharp pictures off of the K5 (which it appears PhotoZone is using as > a test camera). > The K5 is VERY demanding of focusing, and it's entirely possible that > Photozone was unable to (or didn't) optimize their camera and focusing for > the lens. > Everything I've read about the lens so far is that it is quite qood to > excellent, so I would take the Photozone test as flawed, since so far they > are the only people to pan the lens. > > -- > > William Robb > > -- > 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.
