New Member Registered: March, 2009 Location: Bucharest Posts: 17 | Review Date: August 13, 2009 | Not Recommended | Price: $80.00
| Rating: 6 |
Pros: | fast-ish, sharp-ish, decent built, full frame | Cons: | noisy when focusing, rotating front element | | Mediocre lens. It is ergonomic with comfortable zoom and focus rings. The presence of an aperture ring and being a full frame lens is a nice plus. Stopped down to 8-11. it can be sharp. Contrast and color rendition are far from my M50 1.4 or my A35-105 3.5. It shows PF in hard situations even when stopped down. Noisy when focusing but it is not an irritating sound.
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Built quality is low.
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Forum Member Registered: August, 2007 Location: Denver Posts: 92 | Review Date: August 12, 2009 | Recommended | Price: $160.00
| Rating: 8 |
Pros: | Small & light, decent IQ | Cons: | | | This is a nice, small, fast-ish lens. It has solid IQ for a consumer zoom, especially closed down a couple stops. Wide open it's a little soft. I compared it to the 18-55 kit lens (version 1) and found that this lens performs better all the way around. I've since moved on to the Tamron 28-75 XR, which is again better all the way around, but at 2x the size, weight & cost.
I'd recommend this lens if you want an inexpensive step up from the kit lens, or a small, light travel zoom.
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Veteran Member Registered: July, 2007 Location: Florida Gulfer Posts: 3,054 | Review Date: April 29, 2008 | Recommended | Price: $60.00
| Rating: 7 |
Pros: | Great for night shots, real clear | Cons: | none yet | | I realy like this lens, even though I don't know how to do a Pro review I would recomend this lens. It took awesome shots at a Xmas Boat Parade last year. And some awesome sunsets too. | |