The 18-70 is a great step up from the 18-55 variants that come with the bottom end cameras…sharp all the way across the frame, a slightly better aperture combo, great flare control, and very good build quality. It’s only significant drawback, in my opinion, is moderately bad barrel distortion at 18mm. It’s a lot better by 35mm, although for that skyline shot, I suspect he used DxO or similar to straighten it.

Who cares about AF-S 16-35/4 when we can use a very sharp 18-70 kit lens? )))

I read out your exif data from the Philly pics and found that 35mm f 4.1 thing. I compared that to other pictures I took with a 2,8/17-35 and there, the exif was always f 2.8. So, I was sure, you shot that pictures with the new AF-S16-35/4. But I was wrong, so wrong!!!

This exif data didn’t show the absolute f-stop of the lens at all, it just shows the max aperture AT THAT FOCAL LENGTH!!!!!

So, please forgive me, father Bob. ))

And I swear: I never again try to be James Bond using you exif data.

Mario
Germany

Great job Pete.

+1 for Bob K in 2012.