Drawbacks

    - Corners at 17mm. Vignetting, softness, and aberrations, barrel distortion oh my.
    - Not AF-S. While the focus is nearly AF-S fast, the big issue is that you can't override focus manually.

Positives

    - Sharp as a knife, mostly. Outside the corners at 17mm and at 24mm wide open, this lens posts resolution numbers on my D200 that are about as good as they get.
    - The affordable 28-80mm for DX users. Considering the price differential between this and the Nikkor 17-55mm, there's little tradeoff being made. Indeed, this lens is smaller and lighter than the Nikkor, yet except at 17mm, holds its own against that lens.

distortion is normal on wide angle lens unless if your an architect, not going to really matter

so sad.
pm some seller for sony a580.
one say no stock. need preorder. however havent reply my pm on how long do i need to wait if preorder.
the rest never bother to reply my pm.

lol...luckily you didn't wait until your exam finish 

guys, just wondering, is it possible to get a brand new 50mm f1.8 for rm450?
if can, where?

planning to get this for my friend's birthday

Codyx: Yes, barrel distortion is quite common, especially on the wide-angle end of a zoom lens. Sometimes it will start to pincushion (opposite of barrel) at the tele end.

The Sony 50mm F1.8 DT SAM focuses much, much closer and has cleaner bokeh. Good wide open, too.

seems to me that most of the shop ran out of stock for 50mm f1.8
finally got it for rm530
didn't care much cause it's a gift anyway

kuching!!!
i just came back from there n i loved it
would like to go back there again

@codyx
nah, lazy and no time to play with it, handing it over to the new owner the day aft tml

Got paying phootshoot events lo.

some recent shots, C&C please
#1

DSC02369_fhdr.jpg by ZX Chin, on Flickr

it's fake HDR though
i think i overdone it for this one, but it looks cool for some ppl, some might despise it

Porkchop - Tarak manyak shots la. Mostly kenot save coz Flash tarak. Some composition out. Only some left. The rest, is family pix with my girl n kawan. So ntg 2 share out lol.

I declare today's a wasted day. XP

Eii no. I get to eat ICE-CREAM XP

Eii, mine is U-mobile wei 

You shoot alone, sure feel like this one.

You shoot with us, got Sony, Canon and even Nikon!

Semua ada wakaka.

Can bully people summore XP