Merry Christmas

Heres something to cheer everyone up after the stress of preparing for the holidays

Just finished reading a lens test in the new "Digital SLR" magazine

the Pentax and Samsung 50-200 scored quite well, the test said the Pentax was one of the best in the bunch for build quality, the manual focus ring was best on test and it also noted the addition of a distance scale, also good performance throughout the range on optics, the only real gripe was the autofocus hunting in low light. (The overall winner was the Tamron)

Pentax and Samsung (both tested seperately but same results)

Handling *****
Features ***
Autofocus ***
Image Quality ****
Value for Money ****

Canon EF 55-200

Handling **
Features ***
Autofocus *****
Image Quality ***
Value for Money ***

Confucious say;
Man who have Pentax may struggle in low light, but man who have Canon get rubbish image straight away, he also have plastic lens mount!