True Rob, I'm not disappointed with it at all really, it's just not quite hand-hold able for extreme Macro shots unless the light is really quite good. Also the build quality kind of gets to me. But, its so darn good otherwise none of that really matters.
-Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: PAW dragonfly On 27 May 2004 at 17:56, Shawn K. wrote: > that Tamron is really a special lens. It's > not perfect, my biggest gripe is that when you get near 1:1 reproduction the > amount of light entering the lens drops off significantly. I guess this is > common to many Macro lenses, but, it's actually even worse with this lens > because of the barrel design. You might resolve your biggest gripe with the lens if you consider what is happening when you focus 1:1. At 1:1 the lens elements are moved far from the focal plane so the light gathering area at the focal plane is receiving only a small percentage of the entire image circle projected by the lens, hence the reduction in apparent brightness. So don't be disappointed macro lenses all behave similarly. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
