I haven't checked the focus of mine yet, and suspect I need to. Other than some CA (which I expected) I'm quite happy with mine so far.
Ciao, Pete Mac in Melbourne Sent from my iPad On 19/04/2011, at 22:59, Steven Desjardins <drd1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> 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 >> PDML@pdml.net >> 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 > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
