In his former life as a egzotic dancer Alan Chan wrote on 28.07.04 10:14: > I suppose this is not entirely off topic because I am considering to buy one > for my Pentax film cameras (since an affordable K/A15/3.5 is impossible). > However, there is no review I could find about the Tamron, other than the > pretty low score (2.6) from Photodo. There are many happy Sigma users but > someone who owned both said the Tamron was optically better, while Sigma > should be used at f11 but had better built quality. So, anyone here actually > used any of these lenses? I am particularly interested to know the > light-fall-off issue (gone at which f-stop?) and wide open sharpness. Most of the users give more praise to Tamron. Accidentally I have German foto-magazin with me, so if you want I can scan and send you test of this Tamron (it got 9.0 for optics, while Sigma 8.4).
-- Best Regards Sylwek
