Yes. But 40% more on price, 50% more on weight, larger too. AND I could not find a single person (at the time I was looking for one in 2004) who had any experience at all with the Tamron nor any examples of its rendering qualities. Still haven't seen more than two or three photos taken with it.
I couldn't find any examples of the DA14 rendering either, but the DA14 plus the *ist DS body cost me only $200 more than the Tamron would have, and about half what the Canon EF14/2.8L would have ... and my testing with that one had been very disappointing. I've since made more than 1800 photos with the DA14 and feel very good about it. ;-) Godfrey On Jun 1, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Jack Davis wrote: > Compared Photozone MTF tests results on the DA 14 and the Tamron 14. > Tamron superior f/2.8 through f/5.6, but DA slightly superior at f/8 > and 11. > (Have seen the Tamron priced at 'prox $1100). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
