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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 279698" data-attributes="member: 13090">The version with the PZD (Piezo Drive) is the newer version of the two you listed and definitely the one you want of the two. As to whether or not it's a &quot;good lens&quot; I would say it's a good lens, yes. Not a &quot;great&quot; lens but a good lens. There are no free lunches in photography and the &quot;One Lens to Rule Them All&quot; concept is a seductive one. You're going to pay for the convenience of going from wide angle to super-zoom with things like barrel/pin cushion distortion and chromatic aberration; both of which this lens exhibits pretty well. So, how good a lens it is, is a subjective sort of thing with no simple answer. Are there lenses that will do the same thing only better? Probably. But you'll pay more for that performance up front. Like my mechanic likes to ask me, &quot;How fast do wanna go, and how much money do you have?&quot;...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 279698, member: 13090"] The version with the PZD (Piezo Drive) is the newer version of the two you listed and definitely the one you want of the two. As to whether or not it's a "good lens" I would say it's a good lens, yes. Not a "great" lens but a good lens. There are no free lunches in photography and the "One Lens to Rule Them All" concept is a seductive one. You're going to pay for the convenience of going from wide angle to super-zoom with things like barrel/pin cushion distortion and chromatic aberration; both of which this lens exhibits pretty well. So, how good a lens it is, is a subjective sort of thing with no simple answer. Are there lenses that will do the same thing only better? Probably. But you'll pay more for that performance up front. Like my mechanic likes to ask me, "How fast do wanna go, and how much money do you have?" [COLOR=#ffffff] ...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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