Originally posted by STEEWPHOTOGRAPHY That photo looks amazing. And the lens is also cheap in comparison to other lenses. A special lens I think. Maybe the right for me. I will go to the local electronic market and ask them if they have / get one of these lenses. Thx Barso
Good luck with your choice. I think it's a lottery these days for getting a "Good" copy of a lens, some people are pleased with their purchase while others are left scratching their heads as to why theirs doesn't perform the same. This is my second copy as I returned the first, this from me on another post on here.
On the plus side, the first lens was good for clarity & sharpness on anything up to 10ft away up to 135mm after that everything went downhill fast, 300mm looked like a foggy oil painting, the replacement lens is good throughout except when on f4, the higher lengths of 180mm - 300mm are very usable and surprised me when used on a tripod
The problem I have with this one and the previous one is that it won't AF between *135 - 160
, the camera seems to lose touch with it and I have to resort to MF but I cast that aside for the image quality at the long end
. This is a good lens on the K-S1 but you to have to be patient when editing to extract the most out of it.
* I tried the lens on a K-5 and the AF was fine, the AF issue must be related to my camera only.