Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL Lens for Pentax and Samsung Digital SLR Cameras
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL Lens for Pentax and Samsung Digital SLR Cameras
Customer Review: Great Addition
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great addition! Works great! You will not regret this purchase. We are very pleased with this item and highly recommend it. It arrived quickly as well. Customer Review: Great Service, Great Price
Summary: 5 Stars
I received my lens much faster that I had hoped for and it was in excellent condition. I've already taken over 400 pictures with it and am very satisfied!Customer Review: Decent lens, great value
Summary: 4 Stars
Stop it down a bit and it does the job. Not recommended for low light.Customer Review: Average, but you can to better
Summary: 2 Stars
The autofocus on this lens is much too slow. In addition, the aperture doesn't allow enough light it. The lense would be useful for a beginner, but I would invest a bit more in a more solid lense with a lower aperture setting. Pentax offers hundreds of thousands of quality used lenses.Customer Review: Excellent kit lens: Give it a try first
Summary: 4 Stars
I have switched to pentax from canon. Well canon is sure good with a large collection of lenses but pentax gave me somehting better like image stabilization in the body so any lens used becomes IS. I ordered the camera from Beach Camera through the Amazon.com. The service was wonderful and so were the sales support.
I got this lens as a kit lens with my K100D. I was looking for buying a Sigma f2.8 18-50mm. But after reading many reviews of the kit lens, i decided to give it a try first. I am happy i did it. The lens performs great between 24mm-50mm with an aperture fo f 8 or f 11. They are sharp the colours are acurate. While comparing prints (7x5 ") i cant find difference between the pentax kit lens and a prime 50mm f:1.7 on the canon Rebel. There is some difference at same apertures at very large prints. (but how many of us who are not professionals or take regular printouts will go for prints size more than A4 or 11x8.5 inches) I am sure you would like this lens after you try it out......it is perfect for a carrry around lens, you wont be dissapointed.
To summarize.
Pros:
Light in weight and small
very useful zoom range
Great pictures at around 24-50mm (f8-f11)
can move from auto to manual focus immediately
Not seen any ghosting or flare till now
Auto focus accurate
Smooth zooming
Works wonderful for macro shots (of course not comparing it to the true macros)
And all of this you get in under 100$.
Cons:
Vigenneting at 18 mm
soft and unsharp edges at 18mm
5,6 at the 55mm is not sharp.
not good for indoor shots where flash is prohibited.
In fact i have to think a lot to find out any more negatives about this lens.
This kit lens has taught me that :that a kit lens is NOT always bad. try this out first. A great lens will be very costly and buying a great lens will not give me great shots. It is you who can give you some good shots even with this cheap and great lens. if you get to know how to compose good photos.
happy shooting ....:)