Good shot. My wife's K100D (the hand-me-down camera as she calls it) has that lens. It is very versatile, esp for travel. Ocassionally she (I used to) gets a soft shot but not often.
The Sigma 18-250 on my K5 is similar. Zero complaints from either of us. It will be a while yet before I reach the limits of my photo gear, so not knashing my teeth about the future of Pentax. Gerrit -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry Colen Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2013 2:57 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO Granny Smith A friend at work just got a Sigma 105/2.8 macro for his 5D3. In the ensuing playing around with cameras, I put the tamron 18-250 on the K-5II, and grabbed this shot. To my mild surprise, I actually rather like it for more than just a sharpness test: http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/9207046752/ Looking at the Exif data: Make: PENTAX Model: PENTAX K-5 II Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50) Aperture: f/6.3 ISO Speed: 2500 Focal Length: 250 mm Lens: TAMRON AF 18-250mm F3.5-6.3 Di II LD Aspherical [IF] MACRO I'm using a camera that many claim just isn't pro level, with a lens that is pretty good for a superzoom, but rather soft at the long end. The lens is wide open at 250mm, I'm hand holding it at 1/50 (or 5 times the nominal slowest shutter speed at that focal length) and I'm doing this all at ISO 2500. If this is what an OK lens will do, on an outdated mid level body, at ISO 2500, then welcome to the twenty first century me bucko. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
