I have had the lens for 5 years now... one of my first images, from Feb. 2011, taken with my K20D
Since then it's been in 30 or forty canoe trips, been dropped 5 times, been repaired once, just because the zoom ring was getting stiff. It's been through the wars, and still great performer.
It's good for just about everything.
It's taken a back seat of late to the DA*200 which with stacked TCs is a better bird lens But as general purpose kit, it's hard to beat the 60-250. As part of a two lens kit, 16-85 or 18-135 and 60-250, you won't miss much.
DA*60-250 slideshow.
Counting keepers (the ones that haven't been deleted from libraries, I have over 7,000 images taken with this lens.
It also works great with the F 1.7x AF adapter and the HD 1.4 adapter, on APS_c
Last edited by normhead; 08-18-2016 at 11:27 AM.