Originally posted by Paul the Sunman So far the DA* 11-18 is looking to be another very nice lens, maintaining Ricoh/Pentax's excellent recent record. I am looking forward to seeing how it performs.
I got the lens yesterday and my first test pics show outstanding sharpness edge to edge at all focal length. Lens is already very sharp edge to edge at f/2.8, f/8 is the sweet spot. It is better than sigma 18-35mm: equally sharp at f/8, sharper wide open, less CA, no field curvature detected, no focus problem detected so far... (just tested LiveView). It's in another league than 12-24 that I own too.
Now I desire even more a 16-50 or 18-35 mark II with such IQ.