the size...
hmm. Just looking on the yaotomi.co.jp picture where the 18-35 is mounted on the K-5IIs. It actually appears larger than I thought before!
Some (including me) will have to upgrade our cute tiny camera bags (I couldn't get away any longer with my smallest Lowepro slingshot, but will need to upgrade the medium Version or look elsewhere). Probably not the end of the world though. For THIS lens I would be willing to take this penalty (provided everything else is allright, esp. autofocus precision).
And, after all, using the 18-35 gives us Pentaxians a distinct pro look
no seriously, I think this is a very good-looking lens, as typical for Sigma Arts I've seen so far (their primes on FF bodies).
And after all, the 18-35 is probably still shorter (and lighter) (and cheaper) than stacking three equivalent 1.8-or-faster prime lenses (18,24,35mm) on top of each other in our bags
. Weight? the 18-35 weighs 270g per focal length (not counting the infinitely many ones in between these three "classical"). 270g wouldn't be bad at all for a f1.8 wide angle prime, would it? Same is true for the price, isn't it?
Last edited by Frater; 06-23-2014 at 07:14 AM.