Good luck and happy shooting with that lens Rense.I believe that it can also shoot macro like shots.There may be a switch for that but I haven't used that lens in a while since I got the Pentax 55-300 lens.The Quantaray as you can see is practically brand new.This is the 2nd time that I bought this lens.The first one got sold when I sold an earlier Pentax dslr camera to a co-worker.I liked it so much that I got it again.
The photo was shot with that lens when I was still wet behind the ears with digital photography back in March of 2006 and it became picture of the week in Parade Magazine which is a supplement Nation wide in many big newspapers.Once again good luck and try some macros with it.
--charliezap