On 2005-08-21, at 01:00, Bruce Dayton wrote:
I'm betting on a rebadge - their 28-75/2.8 and 17-35/2.8-4 are both Tamrons.
This is not a rebadge. That's just the newest version of Minolta's 35/1.4 lens which has been produced for about 20 years in two flavours. See here:
http://www.mhohner.de/minolta/lenses.php#fixedAnd "D" doesn't mean "Digital", it just means that the lens is equipped with distance encoder, just like "D" lenses for Nikon.
-- Best regards Sylwek