Well, there must be copy-to-copy variation, because I've been happy with mine; and none of the scores of photos I've taken with it and posted here have been criticized for softness.
The most recent was this one (115mm, f/5.6): http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17616306&size=lg Rick On Dec 10, 2013, at 15:35 , Charles Robinson wrote: > > > The 50-200 I have is utter garbage and I hate it. If you stop it down to > about f/11 it's... OK. Best I can say for it. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [email protected] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

