OK, at this point I'm leaning towards the Tamron 17-50 f2.8. The one
report I've had from the list about it is that it's optically very
good. The outside reviews complain about it's plasticy build, and noisy
AF motor, but hell large numbers of even fairly expensive lenses are
mostly plastic these days and all my current AF lenses are screw drive,
I wouldn't know what to do if a lens didn't make /some/ noise. The
kicker is that Amazon is selling the damned things for a tiny bit less
than $250.00 grey market.
Optically it appears to be on par with the Pentax DA 16-50, and Sigma
17-50 for approximately 1/3 and 3/5 the price of the former and latter
respectively. True it's got the same warranty you'd get if you bought a
used lens but even then it's less than 1/2 the price of a LN used
Pentax, and about the same as the LN used Sigma.
The only fly in the ointment is that the USA version of the Tamaron has
a 6 year guarantee, does it need it. I know that was the selling point
of early imported Hyundai automobiles, they had the longest warranty in
the US market because you /needed/ it.
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