On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Nitin Garg wrote: > hi, > > anyone has any experience with this lens ?
Nitin, I've had one for a while. It's not a bad lens and the zoom-range is good for walking around. The attached lenshood is pretty deep and seems to work well - I can't ever recall seeing much flare when using this on bright sunny days. The attached lens hood also reverses to store on the camera, which is quite convenient. I think I used the macro mode once - I'm not much of a macro shooter. It's only macro at 300 which means you need quite a bit of room. I don't use it much anymore because my style of photography changed - I normally walk around with a 20-35, a 50 and a 135 now. It's an ok lens, though. As for the quality of the image - I can't comment on that as I haven't used it for a while. I can't remember ever looking at a pic and thinking "Man this lens, er, blows!" It works well with my Zs and my MZ-5 - no compatability problems. (It's the one attached to the camera (z5) in http://www.diaspoir.net/dave/davenstef.jpg, although that's an amazingly unhelpful picture for camera equipment. It also looks photoshopped, for some reason.) dave -- dave o'brien - http://www.diaspoir.net The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
