All makers suffer from this. Tamron's not quite as good as the 1st party brands, but better than sigma for sample variation.
-Adam On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Bong Manayon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it this lens or Tamron as a whole? I thought Sigma was the only > one that suffered that reputation (quality control issues). Hmmm, > maybe I'll do your thing and have someone in PDML volunteer to test it > stateside before having it shipped this side of the world... > > Bong > > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got it. It's the only non-Pentax lens that I have. Not only it has > > the aperture ring, but all the rings rotate in the same direction as the > > Pentax lenses. It is really excellent lens if you manage to obtain a > > good copy. There is certain sample variation to be taken into account. > > So that you have to keep in mind that you *might* have to exchange one > > or two of them until you get the really good one. Mine is sharp even > > wide open with excellent IQ across the zoom range. > > > -- > Bong Manayon > http://www.bong.uni.cc > > -- > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
