Hi Hannah-Marie,

OK, here we go. I got the lens this morning and spent some time shooting around Guildford Castle.

Here's a couple of samples.

Image 1: A=f5.6, S=1/80, Aperture priority, Centre-weighted metering, Daylight WB

Image 2: A=f6.3, S=1/40, Aperture priority, Centre-weighted metering, Daylight WB

The lens is pretty good for portrait work as well. However, Auto-focus does not work very well in low light situations. Even in daylight, I couldn't use narrow apertures such as f16 or f22, indicated shutter speed would jump to 2sec or 4sec etc. I didn't use a tripod for my pictures. It's only my first day with the lens mind you, so these are my first impressions only.

DPreview.com have also done a detailed review but is quite technical and a bit above my head. However, they do have a lot of sample images (they are better than mine!).

Hope this helps you. I have some more images if you are interested in seeing them, send me a PM and I will do a small gallery on Photobox.

thx

DK