Originally posted by Kunzite So... you still believe that they'd use the highest grade sealing on the cheapest lenses, with the lowest grade sealing reserved for high-end lenses?
Nope, I didn't try to assign any logic to it whatsoever, because of the time-line of these lens releases, change of ownership, and the quirkyness of Pentax, I just accepted what I have as what it is.
I own both the DFA100WR and a DA*300, never gave the weather sealing aspect of the DA*300 much thought to be honest. If you ever spend much time with a DFA100WR, you could easily be fooled into thinking it is almost "Limited" build quality, so I don't think of it as a low grade cheapo lens.
While the DA*300 is crazy good optically, for all it's accolades on that, it could use a way better designed lens hood mount, and could learn something from the lowly DFA100WR about built in hoods...
Eric