Paul, its a Tamron lens, and is supposed to be pretty good. Pentax puts their own coating on it.
The forthcoming 15-30 and 70-200 are also Tamron lenses. They are also supposed to be good. But in some ways Pentax never learns. They are still putting the SDM label on new lenses. So what are Pentax's lens designers doing? Joe -- 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.

