On my lunch break on Saturday (Mar22)I decided to *play around* with a
K200D with a DA 18-250 lens attached to check out the zoom range. The results
are as follows and all I did was resize to 600x400 @ 100dpi, then to "smart sharpen"
and, in a few cases, use the "shadow/highlight" feature in PS CS2

PHOTO'S -- @ 18, then 250:

These pics were not, of course, made for any precision testing -- I leave that for/to the experts

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but just to show the zoom range of the lens which,BTW, I was quite impressed with

Cheers,

Jack