| Latest Review Posted | SMC Pentax-DA 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED
I go to this lens often; when ever the subject is moving around, like kids at a b-day party or on the beach, this lens is the only tool that can do the job with respectable results. The focus is a bit tricky, you need to get it close by hand then use AF (only when zoomed in over 250). The picture quality will blow you away when the light is used right.
beside one of Pentax's limited there is no zoom that compares. along side such a prime this lens would be an 8, but I look at all the reviews of lenses I have used on this forum and in that light this lens is a 9.5. I've owned at leaste 10 other zooms and this one is better than them all. shorter zooms are not any more crisp, faster lenses have worse aberations, this lens is in my opinion the best of all worlds. I sold my tamron 28-75 F/2.8, pentax 50-200, and sigma 18-250... they are dogs by comparison and more over the tamron which I wanted for low light would disapoint so often that I had to laugh. the 55-300 was crisper with a higher ISO than the tamron wide open. I lost so many good pics with the tamron that I wanted to throw it against a wall... The 55-300 never let's me down. |
