Hello
The long awaited DA*16-50 is finally here. I picked it up this afternoon in my usual shop. The build quality looks great, AF is nearly silent, a huge difference to the normal AF.
Unfortunately, the weather does not allow to take some very interesting test shots. Nevertheless, both the K10D as the DA*16-50 are weather sealed, so I went out and took a few flowers in the garden under the rain.
Here are the first test shots with this lens (all shots with K10D at 50mm, converted from RAW using silkypix):
F2.8
F4.0
F8.0
The shots are also available in full resolution under
K10D Photo Gallery by Dominique Schreckling at pbase.com.
I will tried to have these shots printed tomorrow into real photos.
I will not leave these test shots too long on my pbase page. I will replace it with some better shots, as soon as possible, either tomorrow if weather allows, or after my trip to South Africa where I will hopefully be able to make some nice photos.