Thomas_St

I own the Pentax DA 4,0-5,8/55-300, IMHO it's optically the same lens as the HD, at least the schemas on Ricoh's website are identical: http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/products/lens/img/img-sm ...

Interesting, I just checked price for both lenses on amazon.de: HD PENTAX-DA 16-85mm F3.5-5.6ED DC WR: 523,72 € Pentax SMC-DA 17-70mm / f4,0 (IF) SDM: 548,75 € So, at least in Germany  they cost ...

Why not going for the Pentax HD DA 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6 ED DC WR? I think it's the sharper lens, you get 15mm more on the longer side of the zoom range and you may also like weather resistance. I have ...

Great and very interesting article, it explains very good, that there is nothing like zero-tolerance in the real world, which is ruled by physical laws not imagination (Hmm, why am I thinking about...

Sorry, but maybe you should read more attentive, because IMHO the difference between variation and good/bad copy is very good explained.

The variation is the distribution of quality for delivered...