Trying Out a Q 08

Oh dear, my Q 01 prime died. It was such a good lens and so useful that it had to be replaced. No problem, there were several on the usual auction site. But there was a problem - as well as finding and buying a 01, I noticed a 08 wide angle zoom at a price that wasn't as outrageous as it usually is. To buy or not to buy? That was the question. Well, my bank balance is now smaller but an 08 is now in my Q collection. It looks good, it feels good, and from test shots taken with the Q-S1 on the daily dog walk it can take good photographs. Here are a few, the first with the sun just out of frame to see how the 08 would cope.

Thoughts, comments welcome as usual.

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Steve

Very nice!

That 2nd one is really nice.

Good examples in tough lighting. It's such a good lens... and makes you wonder what Pentax were doing putting so much R&D into something most Pentaxians have never heard of!

You can get a JJC hood for this lens that's a little bit cheaper than the original one. It's the exact same shape and fitting.

(Also what happened to the 01 lens? I've never known of failure.)

Thanks folks. I've just done another walk with the lens, different route, different subjects, same dog. I'm liking the lens!
Thanks for the pointer to a lens hood. Since it's 49mm thread, I was going to check my heap of random hoods before searching the web. But now I know that a hood does exist I may as well buy yet another hood for the heap!
I wondered whether you'd notice! The Q-S1 stopped recognising that there was a lens attached. First thought was that the camera was on its last legs, but the same thing happened when the 01 was attached to the Q and both Q and Q-S1 worked OK with all other lenses. Before the total failure, there was about 10 minutes when it was intermittent - removing and remounting the lens, removing and reinserting the battery or even just switching the camera off and on sometimes got it going again. But eventually, it died completely. I have, of course, cleaned the contacts but no change. There's at least one report on PentaxForums about an 01 failing, but nobody seems to have plucked up the courage to take one apart to find out the cause.

Steve