Pentax-A 35-135mm

TDN · Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 321 Location: Belgium

I was very pleasantly surprised by this lens today!

Turns out the color rendition is great, and sharpness is not bad either! I expected rather poor quality from what seems like a cheap zoom, but at f8, it's really good!

I think I'll use this one more when I'm shooting color from now on Smile

I'll post some street shots with this lens later

the lens:

A sample of the vibrant and saturated colors:
at f5.6, right out of the box

full size here
http://tdn9.be/photo/testsamples/pentax35-135mm_flower_full.jpg

Some more (edited) images with this lens can be found here: http://tdn9.be/?p=151

LucisPictor · Expire: 2013-12-03

Yes, very nice.
Sometimes zoom lenses are able to surprise!

I've had that with my Sigma 28-85 and my Soligors 35-200 and 70-220.
And then a Tokina 4/80-200, a Tamron 3.5/70-210 or the Tamron 60-300 show that zoom lens are not automatically bad, just because they are zoom lenses. Wink

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

Not bad at all!

patrickh · Expire: 2011-11-18

I have commented before on

Kiron 28-85
Kiron 75-150
Nikkor 50-135

They are all great lenses.

patrickh