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18-135mm lens advice Pentax or Sigma AF

Started May 1, 2012 | Discussions thread
iTrax
iTrax Senior Member • Posts: 1,125
Re: I bought the DA18-135 last year but ....

I have two Sigma 17-70 non HSM ,better in my opinion ( much lighter, smaller and with better MACRO), my the most used lens although in last 6 weeks I took over 3000 photos with the Q ( addictive!) and none with KX or K7.

That will most likely change, purchased used K5 with , guess what (!) , another identical Sigma 17-70 2.8-4.5.

I purchased used Sigma 18-125 HSM but without OS a while ago, it is great lens , much better optically than the old ( like one eaten by your dog - I used to have one) non HSM version but, it is much bigger than 17-70, much slower , wide fast part is more important to me than tele ( + I do have DA55-300) so I do not really use it much, most likely will be selling it soon with one Sigma 17-70.

I am also in Perth , so you could probably get those both Sigma's for the price of Pentax DA18-135 ( can not comment on this lens, never had one, well too expensive for me) , send me PM when you back if you want to.
kind regards
jack

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