New Member Registered: June, 2011 Location: Kaliningrad region Posts: 7 | |
| | | Review Date: May 17, 2010 | Recommended | Price: $10.00
| Rating: 6 |
| Pros: | Small, relatively well built | | Cons: | Low end lens , aperture | |
It is a good lens to have, it is not amazingly sharp neither the macro mode is nowhere near a true macro but overall the performance is honest it is not amazing.
As a replacement zoom i would consider it for the price i paid for it.
In my opinion if you want a better quality the 70-210 f4.5 K2 from sigma is fantastic ( i have it on MD mount for my EP1 ). It looks the same except better macro capability and constant aperture.
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Veteran Member Registered: April, 2007 Location: Uppsala, Sweden Posts: 576 | | Review Date: February 15, 2009 | Recommended | Price: None indicated
| Rating: 6 |
| Pros: | Not too heavy, ok IQ | | Cons: | Slow, zoom creep, build quality | |
I used this lens quite a lot until I got a Pentax-A 70-210/4. Needless to say the Pentax is superior so it hasn't seen much use since then.
It is small and light weight with quite good optical qualities if you stop it down a bit.
However, at least my copy suffers heavy zoom creep, and the build quality isn't the best. Feels a little loose here and there. Rotating front element makes using some filters hard.
I would recommend this lens if you find it cheap, otherwise look for something else.
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