Boris, Why not wait for the Tamron 10-24 and pair it with the 28-75? I believe it's been released in Canon and Nikon mounts with Pentax and Sony to follow soon. I've yet to find a review of the 10-24 but if it's as good as my 28-75 Di I'm in the market for one...............anyone looking to buy a lightly used Sigma 10-20 EX? lol.
John ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 November 2008 04:11 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Wide zoom (and not zoom) lenses redux Well, Christine, I suppose I ought to clarify here. Christine Aguila wrote: > Boris: I don't mean to nit-pick here, and maybe I'm just reading your > post wrong, but you seem to assess "any" drawback as a "serious" > drawback. You'd agree, wouldn't you, that some drawbacks are more > serious than others? If so, it seems to me the DA 16-45 would fair > fairly well in lens assessment. Maybe I'm reading your post wrong. If > so, just ignore. :-) Cheers, Christine I've a Tamron 28-75/2.8 that I bought from a fellow PDMLer (well, PDMLeress, in fact, but that's beside the point). It is just shines. It has certain problems as well, but they are minor. If Pentax comes up with full frame body, all my problems will be solved then. I will have moderate wide to moderate tele walk around lens at the ready. Above Tamron is the only 3rd party zoom lens that I'd be willing to put on my bodies knowing that I'd get superb image quality from it. We had a company fun day just several days ago. Unfortunately the other photo fellow ;-) couldn't bring his wide angle lens (Nikon 12-24 or something like that) due to battery problems with his camera. So I shot some very fine images, but no wide ones. That's why I am started again on my search for a wider lens. So in a sense, I am looking to replicate speed, sharpness, low distortion (at 28 mm cropped it is not difficult though) and AF precision of Tamron 28-75/2.8. Boris -- 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. -- 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.
