Rule 34: I own a Pentax K7. Considering Pentax only makes one f2.8 SDM at this range that costs $1500 or so and has far worse distortion characteristics than the sigma which is ~$800 cheaper I can still see the benefit for that system at least. I could care less about lens based stabilization systems, half the reason for buying a Pentax was to avoid needing that in a lens. I agree that they should drop the price a bit for the non-OS version though, the hardware can't be free.
I would sell you DA*16-50 for $1,500 if you want, but the rest of us can get it new for $849.95 from Amazon or B&H.
Regretfully, Sigma remains on my "don't touch this" list for good, hence the annoying QC as Lupti points out...
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Rule 34: I own a Pentax K7. Considering Pentax only makes one f2.8 SDM at this range that costs $1500 or so and has far worse distortion characteristics than the sigma which is ~$800 cheaper I can still see the benefit for that system at least. I could care less about lens based stabilization systems, half the reason for buying a Pentax was to avoid needing that in a lens. I agree that they should drop the price a bit for the non-OS version though, the hardware can't be free.
I would sell you DA*16-50 for $1,500 if you want, but the rest of us can get it new for $849.95 from Amazon or B&H.
Regretfully, Sigma remains on my "don't touch this" list for good, hence the annoying QC as Lupti points out...