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EDIT: Scroll down to a newer post with possibly a more meaningful pair of cropped images.

I promised outdoor shots, but first I wanted to give a fair comparison with the 18-55II kit lens. After few dozen shots of pretty much the same composition I finally decided that my K200D noticeably front-focuses with the kit lens, every single time. Strange!

I used ufraw to convert from RAW to png and gimp to crop and finally convert it to jpeg! PHEW!

The AF was supposed to focus near the word "Park." I used Av mode (5.6 aperture, 50mm and 53mm) a tripod and the built-in flash, but my conditions were far from ideal. The first shot is done with the kit lens; the second is done with 17-70.

EDIT: Also, pay attention to the whiteness of the paper in both cases. I used a flash in both cases.