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16-45 vs 16-85 (in the 16-45 range)

Started Feb 7, 2017 | Discussions thread
OP Historicity Senior Member • Posts: 2,342
Re: 16-45 vs 16-85 (in the 16-45 range)
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LightBug wrote:

If you have both lenses, you can probably do the test yourself.

Yeah, but I bought the 16-45 used from KEH and discovered a piece of plastic (or thin metal) to have broken off inside the lens and it seems to be resting on the aperture blades; hence I'm sending it back within KEH's 14-day return period limit.

The 16-45 has constant max aperture of F4, but other than that, I expect the newer 16-85 to beat it in terms of image quality.

Yeah, perhaps, but Pentax is still selling the 16-45, at least on Amazon, and you'll pay a bit more for it than for the 16-85.

Lawrence

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