The lens I love to hate. I always found it ergonomically annoying. Mine had terrible zoom creep, the wide-only macro setting seemed backwards to me, and it was wildly non-parfocal, so that any slight shift of the zoom would put it out of focus. And, of course, being variable-aperture meant that it was a bit inconvenient on any camera without auto exposure. That said, I used it for a long time as my standard walk-around lens, because it was a good range, and decently sharp, and I have grudgingly to admit that it usually produced rather nice images. Certainly worth a buck!
