RE: EOS Re: Moderately Wide Angle SLR Digitals

[Ken Durling]

I can corroborate this.  I owned the Tamron 20-40 for a while and found it 
to be a fantastic lens. Incredibly sharp.  Very pleasing in other ways too, 
color,  contrast.  A camera store pro I know told me that a medical 
equipment testing firm had bought 200 of them to use on calibration 
equipment.  I regret selling mine now, which I only did because I was 
saving for a long tele for wildlife, which I shoot more of.

Ken
At 08:24 AM 5/6/2005, you wrote:
I know I posted this some time back but some friends and I did a test with 
different wide angles using a Canon Eos 1D Mark II.  We tested the Caon 
20-35 F2.8L (very good lens) against a Tamron 20-40mm F2.7-3.5. The Tamron 
blew the Canon away wide open, and while the Canon got better at F8, the 
Tamron was still better. I know this is blasphemy to many who only want 
Canon lenses, but this is the truth and something we were very very 
surprised to find. If someone is looking for the 20-35 Canon, save some 
money and get the 20-40 Tamron. You will not be sorry.

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