Sharp, sharp, sharp.
Circular aperture.
Distance integration.
Compact and light.
Good focal range.

Don't like 'petal' lens hood, but they are very common.

Very sharp and capable lens. Great colour and saturation on all slides so far. Very impressive and highly recommend both it and the 5600 HS(D) to Dynax 7 buyers.

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28-80, 28-105, 24-85.

Compact size, sharpness, ease of use
and 4+ zoom range

none

A beautiful highly functional zoom that enabled me to eliminate three lenses from my
camera bag. Its quite compact,the pictures of it in advertisements does not give you
an accurate picture of this lens size, It is very compact. In using this lens and running it through its paces I have not found even the smallest of failures. I would highly recomend this lens to anyone considering purchase.
found any problems at all. I would highly recomend this lens to anyone

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Tamron 28/105 zoom
Minolta maxxum 35/105 zoom
Sigma 28/200 zoom
Minolta Max 28/80 pwr. zoom

Compact size, Built quilty, Consistently exellent optical performance across the film plane, the focal range, subject distance, the aperture range. Unusally low distorion acoss the Range. This is the consumer standard zoom lens. and It does everything for its purpose and more.

If this has one as a consummer standard zoom lens, The other competitor has more.

Best consummer standard zoom to date.

Customer Service

N/A

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I tried-->35~80/4~5.6 AFD nikkor, 28~105/3.5~4.5 AFD nikkor, 35~70/2.8 AFD nikkor, 28~105/3.5~4.5 EOS USM, 28~135/3.5~5.6 USM EOS and and other

Compact, handy zoom range

not as sharp as my other lenses

I figured that this had to be a good lens judging from the above reviews and from the fact that Minolta are pushing this lens with the new Maxxum 7. Having taken this lens with me on a scenic vacation to the Canadain Rockies, I found this lens to be mediocre - neither poor nor excellent. The color rendition was good, there was no distortion or flare, it was fast enough with 200 film and it was certainly handy to work with. However I have to say that it was not able to match the sharpness of my other lenses. In short this seemed to be too "soft" a lens for my needs and it is on its way back to the shop. I'll continue to put up with the bulk of my "bonzo" 28-135 lens as my prime until such time as I can find a better alternative. Perhaps the Tamron 24-135 may work better......

Customer Service

Never used

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Minolta 35-105, 28-135, 75-300, 50mm f1.7

Size
62mm filter

Not very sharp
Build quality
Price

Took lens back and keep the two other mentioned lenses. Tamron 24-135 and Tokina 24-200 one for me and one for my wife. These two lens way out performed the Minolta 24-105mm, I was hoping I could stick with the Minolta line but is just was not at the same level as these two. It was very soft, altough it had a very compact size and light weight and the 62mm filter was a plus.

Customer Service

N/A

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Tamron 24-135mm
Tokina 24-200mm

Compact size, low weight, sharpness and free hood. Pratical zoom range.

Manual focus not so smoothly.

A very sharp lens, with reasonable contrast. The zoom range is ideal for outdoor photography. Great colour and saturation on all the negative films and slides so far. A lens with a very good value!

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Pentax 28-70/4

Sharpness, Price, Size, Brightness and Autofocus speed. Covers a good range of focal lengths for general use.

Feels a bit plasticky! No other complaints.

Very impressive sharpness and good colour rendition more neutral than my Tamron. Bargain for the money. Small size makes it easy to carry and store. Very pleased with it, highly recommended as general use standard zoom.

Customer Service

Not used.

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Tamron 35-135 f3.5/4.5
Canon 28-85 f4