Originally posted by Gregor That helps alot. Thanks. Sounds like it might be worth it to try to pick up a used DA and skip the kit lens, though it is hard to pass up.
You all are crazy sick... You are talking him out of a great lens at an unbelievable price!
GREGOR, Please take all this stuff with a grain of salt. Honestly with the kx + 18-55 + 55-300 kit at $645 on amazon... The darn 55-300 is costing you about 140 bucks... Only a terminally crazy Pentaxian would spend $350 dollars on something you can get for $140...
Buy a cheap threaded hood off of ebay. Lack of Quick shift AF is easily worked around by AFing and then flip'n the mf switch on the camera.
The plastic mount is no big deal. In fact, if you drop your camera and lens... the metal mount may cause even more damage.
There are plenty of other things to spend that $200 on.
PS.. I now have the 18-55II and the 18-55L... I dont see any difference in actual IQ
Last edited by Igilligan; 01-08-2010 at 02:21 PM.