Congratulations!
Pentax DA* 200mm/2.8 is a very nice lens, you feel in hand its build quality
I'd call
DA* 50-135mm/2.8 bigger than
DA* 200mm/2.8 at least with their hoods in the shooting position:
While
DA* 200mm/2.8 with hood and
K-3 attached fits (
vertically) into a
Lowepro Stealth Reporter D400 AW camera bag,
DA* 50-135mm/2.8 is (
with hood and camera body attached) an inch or so too long for that otherwise wonderful bag
What I find I get better sharpness (
'pixel to pixel') with
50-135mm/2.8 shots on its 135mm end than with
DA* 200mm/2.8 when handheld with shutter speeds 1/180 (
flash synchro speed, no HSS). I am simply unable to keep the set of camera + 200mm APS-C lens + flash steady enough
I find purple fringing with every single Pentax zoom when wide open. Might that be a camera sensor fringing at 2.8 rather than the lenses themselves?
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Originally posted by Jannis DA*200 is only slightly bigger then DA*50-135