I've heard good things and bad things about this lens, elements splitting, etc... well, but LBA is much powerful then those comments, and seeing that the price for the new DA17-70/4 will be msrp 600$, i started searching for this constant F/4 zoom.
Regarding the camera i don't know much, but it feels nice in the hand.
For a reasonable price bought the lens with the camera attached and everything is near mint, so i can't complain much.
Some pics of it - Pentax SFx and Pentax 28-70mm F/4
And a few test pics (k100d + FA28-70) :(don't have color film yet)
Only pp contrast and curves, JPEG straight from the camera
28mm / F4
28mm / F8
70mm / F8
100% crop of the above
70mm / F4
100% crop of the above
It seems a good kit:
- the lens is a bit heavier then the kit lens, but it's much more 'compact' and 'solid',
- build quality is similar to my FA35 and FA50 (don't know if it adds anything new to my DA18-55II, probably not, except for 20mm at long end, duhh)
- from the 1st test, image quality and colours seems good
- the camera i didn't have opportunity to use it yet, but everything is working and looking very good
You can see all full size images here:
Zenfolio | Pedro Barbosa | Pentax SFX
Zenfolio | Pedro Barbosa | Pentax-FA 28-70 F/4
Here ends my last journey through LBA (... and CBA) world.