Since these lenses have been getting so much discussion here lately, I thought I'd post this photo from the Tamron 20-40 for discussion. I don't claim this is the best the lens can do, nor do I claim that this is the best type of shot to judge the lens by. I just thought it would be interesting to see a shot of a fairly uniform finely-textured subject at the wide end, with a near distance close focus feature. This is all the way at 20mm, and although I don't recall the exact aperture (sorry!) it was probably around f/5.6 or f/8, as I was hand-holding in early morning light. The out-of-focus background reinforces this belief of mine. Next time I'll record it!
Anyway, comments welcome, and I really would like to know peoples' opinion on what kind of shot would be best to evaluate a lens like this. I'll go out and shoot it. I'd like to re-shoot this one at a few different apertures, for instance. This is shot with my Elan 7 on Velvia, scanned at 2720 dpi, TIFF sized to 800 pixels long dimension, one pass sharpen filter at 5%, and saved at about 80% highest quality jpeg. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=403426 Ken * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
