Originally posted by jatrax Well Amazon shows it in stock again. Although it says "low stock". So maybe it was just a temporary supply chain issue.
As to the merits of the DA*60-250 I agree with @Wheatfield I absolutely love this lens but its dated and is badly in need of a refresh. That's just my opinion and not Pentax bashing (just so we are clear). Optically its excellent and the focal range fits my style very well. I sincerely hope Pentax does the 16-50 thing on the 60-250.
Originally posted by Cambo Zoom-schmoom! Zoom with your feet, except near cliffs/traffic/nasty animals.
Lovely lenses, but I'm a Limited snob.
Where's our DA 133.14159... F3.14156 Limited, Ricoh?
Cheers,
Cameron
Originally posted by RobA_Oz Having a difference of opinion about the relative merits of one Pentax lens or another is hardly Pentax-bashing, or did I miss something here? Why would people who are choosing to spend their savings on new Pentax gear have an interest in debasing the brand? Baffling, rather than sad, I think.
I have no problem with people chirping in with their myopic anti-Pentax opinions when called for. It wasn't called for in tis thread.
When I see someone actually looking for a lens, a usually assume they are aware of SDM issues, have some sense of it's reliability and are making an informed choice.
There is no lens made that never fails and has never had issues out of the box. Unless you know that there's better out there, information claiming yours failed doesn't tell you anything. We have reported failures on DFA* lenses, that ahve only been out a few years. The DA* 60-250 has been out close to 10 years. Of course there will have been some failures. But, IMHO the lens is still worth the money today. And part of that is because I have 10 years of images taken with it.
SO my complaint is not with a difference of opinion, it's with misinformation from people basing thier opinion on too small a sample.
But, this thread is not about that.
And we scrtainly don't need people chirping in about how they didn't stick with it and get good copy, every time the lens is brought up.
Before I bought my DA* 60-250 I returned 2 copies of the Sigma 120-400. My a AD*60-250. wasn't lens a failure problem, it was a lens failure solution. With the HD DA 1.4 TC, it was a lens failure solution. And with what mine has been through, I doubt there's another lens on the planet that would have held up. 5 serious drops, one from 5.5 feet off the top of a tripod, and 2 repairs. It did get a little stiff to work the zoom, but it never stopped working, and continued to work until I felt I could send it in for repair. This lens isn't a reliability failure, this lens is a reliability hero. Especially since I saw a roughly equivalent Canon fall of a 12 inch log and break in half.
Do you really think we need to hear about how easily you give up on a lens over and over in every thread where the lens is mentioned?
But again. What does this have to do with the topic at hand?
The topic is where can I get a DA*60-250, not do you want one, and not were you a failure at getting a good copy.