That price is really quite good. I paid a flat $500 for my copy in
January, 2014. This has been my go to lens when using a normal zoom. I
find my copy to be excellent when stopped down to f8 or more. It is
somewhat soft at f4, improves significantly at 5.6 and is excellent at
f8. It is softer than 16-45 f4 (which is really excellent) at f4 and
f5.6, but is on par with it at f8. In terms of chromatic aberration, the
17-70 is better than the 16-45 at all apertures, IMO. The silent
operation of the 17-70 is really nice.
It's not a dream lens by any measure but a good workhorse. Still looking
for the dream lens.
Mark
On 10/21/2015 6:44 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
The reviews at Adorama are all 4 and 5 star. A lot of the bad reviews
seem to go back to the original SDM introduction, and we know what a
disaster that was.
On 10/21/2015 5:11 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
I had one on loan from Pentax marketing. It was excellent, but I
suppose it might have been cherry picked.
Paul via phone
On Oct 21, 2015, at 4:50 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
It's the same price at Amazon. Customer reviews of it are pretty
terrible for a Pentax lens.
http://www.amazon.com/Pentax-17-70mm-Lens-Digital-Cameras/product-reviews/B001AZ8N6M/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 3:33 PM, P.J. Alling
<[email protected]> wrote:
The deal includes a 3 year extended warranty. I wonder if that
means that
Ricoh is going to discontinue it.
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