Pentax smc DA 55-300 mm / 4.0 - 5.8ED, 21720

Good entry level zoom.

You can\'t really beat this lens for the price. However, the focus is noisy and has a tendancy to "hunt" for a focus point. It is well made and a good addition,despite its faults, to your budget kit bag.

Light weight and quite well constructed. Optics good, rather than superb. Useful focal range and maintains fair image quality across the range. I have missed shots because of the slow autofocus.

Good lens. Great focal length for action shots. Really light weight and a nice depth of field at maximum focal length.

The Pentax SMC DA 55-300mm zoom is a compact dedicated Pentax K mount lens optimized for use with APS-C format cameras. In my case, I have been using it with the Pentax K-7 digital SLR. While I have generally preferred wider zoom ranges, I thought...

This is without doubt the best value zoom lens on the market. For almost 300 brand new and as a kit for the DAL version with the plastic mount and no hood supplied, the optics can only be matched by zooms worth 1000+. Best sharpness at 250, but really...