P.S. The lens is a Tamron design, but it will have Pentax coatings. The Tamron has gotten mixed reviews. It is excellent at wide angle, but at mid focal lengths it needs to be stopped down. It seems to me that mid focal lengths are where this lens would get a lot of use.
Apparently it did not get a * designation because it is not a Pentax design. The truly dumb thing Pentax did is to stamp SDM on the lens. Fortunately, it has Tamron's ultrasonic motor rather than Pentax's. Joe -- 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.
