Mark, While several PDMLers have already responded to your question, I will add my impression. I wrote about this lens a few times earlier here. Here is my message from half a year ago: http://pdml.net/pipermail/pdml_pdml.net/2013-July/352571.html
You can see other opinions on the same thread. Hope this helps, Igor On 12/30/2013 6:07 PM, Mark C wrote: > I'm thinking about getting a DA 17-70 f4 as an upgrade to my DA 16-45 > f4. Mostly looking for a little more reach and less gap between the > long end and the short end of the telephoto zoom that I usually carry > with it. I don't really need an f2.8 lens and, besides, they are not > much longer than the one I have. > > Does anyone have any experience wit this lens? The user reviews I have > stumbled into seem to be inconsistent. Photozone.de gives it fairly > high marks... > > Mark > -- 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.

