(68% Save) Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL Telephoto Zoom Lens for Digital SLR Camera
| List Price: | $249.95 |
| Price: | $79.74 |
| You Save: | $170.21 (68%) |
Pentax has been a leader in the photographic field for many years.
- Many Pentax innovations have become standards in the industry.
- Pentax’s enthusiasm and devotion towards the development of high-quality products have thrived over the years and continues to be stronger than ever.
- The SMC DA 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 AL shows Pentax taking a refreshing approach to the kit lens concept, eschewing lightweight plastics and simplified construction in favour of a design which feels well-made and handles more like a real photographic tool than any of its competitors.
- From the metal lens mount to the proper manual focus ring and excellent lens hood, this 18-55mm exudes an aura of quality which is markedly lacking from other manufacturers’ offerings; and perhaps due to the luxury of not having to include aperture and focus motors or an image stabilisation unit into the lens.
- Pentax have managed to buck the trend and produce a lens which feels solid and is a joy to use. And it’s not just the mechanical construction which is refreshingly different, the optical quality is also very respectable indeed.
Any Comment for this Digital SLR Lens
When the hood is reversed, most of the Digital Camera lens barrel is covered.
- Very good Digital SLR Camera lens. I bought my K100D bundled with this kit lens and took it around Europe for two weeks. I found it to be very light and easy to use. The provided lens hood works great for protecting the lens, and it’s reversible when you don’t want to use it.
- so you can’t reach the focus ring, but that’s not really a fault. On a related note, the focusing ring feels very loose, but that’s probably because this is an auto-focus lens.
- I found that the 18mm wide end was usually good enough to get a picture of a medium to large room. The 55mm end felt a little too short at times, but Pentax also makes a 50-200mm lens that goes really well with this Digital SLR Camera Lens. I found that I rarely need a very long telephoto zoom though, so this EF Telephoto lens worked very well for me.
- Both the 18-55mm and the 50-200mm lenses use 52mm diameter filters so you don’t have to buy another set.
- Some people have found that the focus ring on the 18-55mm and 50-200mm lenses feel unsmooth, like there’s sand trapped inside the lens. From what I’ve read, this seems to be a pretty common thing. Both of my lenses have this issue, but it hasn’t affected their performance at all.
- The only time that I notice the grittiness is when I switch to manual focus. Overall, I think this is a good SLR Camera lens, especially for the price. It can be pretty sharp at smaller apertures, and reasonably sharp wide open.
How to see what amazing imaging this inexpensive glass is capable of.
- Terrific Digital SLR Camera lens! WOW optical quality!,
- It is amusing to read reviews left by Canon inspired morons who bash anything they do not understand ;). This is wonderful SLR Camera lens!
- For normal shooting, under normal conditions, for 99% of people and in 99% it does a job.
Lens of this optical quality, let say 5-6 years ago would cost 8 times the price. - This Digital SLR ens is very sharp. Some funny people ask questions is it sharp like this or like that? Well, it is sharp enough to do any job you may put on it.
Photography it is not about the race who is sharper.
- This Digital Camera lens has very nice, smooth rendition all over the field and it is so nice that I found myself preferring it in many situations.
- Since the Digital Camera lens is so inexpensive, I do not put a protective filter in front of it, that improves image.
- There’s nothing cheap about it. It is not “super fast” but for absolute majority of tasks it is very good choice.
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