This simple, inexpensive telezoom has an added bonus: it's weather-resistant, a first for a kit long lens. Manual focusing rotates 200 degrees for extra-fine precision, but the AF is annoyingly whiny.
Pentax calls this $215 optic a kit lens, even though it’s not currently bundled with any DSLR body. (We bet that this fall we’ll see a dual-lens package with this and the 18–55mm WR zoom, if only from mail-order dealers.) It’s the first kit telezoom that’s weather-resistant, thanks to six O-rings and gaskets surrounding the front element, lensmount, and zoom and focusing rings.
Read more| Lens Type: | Zoom |
| Compatibility: | Digital Only |
| Range: | Normal Super Telephoto |
| Mount: | Pentax |
| Auto Focus: | Yes |
| Full-Time Manual Focus Override: | Yes |
| Silent AF: | No |
| Zoom: | Yes |
| Minimum Focal Length: | 50 mm |
| Maximum Focal Length: | 200 mm |
| Fastest Aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Slowest Aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Image Stabilization: | No |
| Elements: | 11 |
| Groups: | 10 |
| Filter Size: | 49mm |
| Length: | 3.1 inches |
| Weight: | 9.2 ounces |
| Price: | $215.00 |
| Tripod Collar: | No |
| Included Case: | No |
| Macro: | No |
| Tilt/Shift: | No |
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