A great telephoto lens in a compact light weight hand holdable package. You get the equlivent of 300mm f2.8 lens crop factor when used with a Pentax APC sensor camera. Great for wildlife and sports photograpy. The lens tack sharp and renders beautiful color and great bokeh.

Someone could complaint about the speed autofocus of pentax lenses. Maybe, they would change their minds when shooting with holy DA* 200mm. It would be perfect adding the colar-ring.

holy fast autofocus; sharpness

non colar-ring

REVIEW: Pentax SMC DA* 200mm f/2.8 ED(IF) SDM

Gary Wolstenholme takes a look at this compact super-telephoto lens with a silent focusing motor, full time manual focus override and a bright f/2.8 maximum aperture, which gives an equivalent field of view of a 300mm lens on a 35mm camera.

Outstanding resolution; Almost zero distortion; Low CA; Fast focusing; Weather sealing; Build quality; Light weight

It doesn't fit other makes of camera to allow everyone to enjoy this lens

Lens Test: Pentax SMCP-DA* 200mm f/2.8ED (IF) SDM AF

If you needed proof that Pentax has a high-performance, professional-quality DSLR in the offing, this $1,000 (street) lens is it. Based on the film-era 200mm f/2.8 FA lens, it's equipped with new internal-flare-suppressing coatings, and it has a newly designed rear element which Pentax claims...

Pentax 200mm f/2.8 ED IF SDM SMC DA* review by slider

The build qualit is very good and should last me a for years to come. The Images have been extremely sharp you might say magnificent. the supersonic drive motor is very fast and smooth.

Extremely sharp and quite

its a little heavy; but I can live with it