Originally posted by thibs If this new DA* is of comparable quality to DFA*... It should be very good. And quite expensive.
Do they consider DA* equals quality-wise to DFA*, I dunno.
I think this DA * lens should be good -- has weather sealing, PLM drive, and f2.8 fixed aperture. New lenses are always more expensive and I would imagine that eventually the price would drop to around 1000 dollars.
I am more of a full frame shooter at this point and my DA *16-50 gets me by. I would say that if I mostly shot APS-C I would strongly consider this lens, assuming that it is better optically than the current version.