John Whittingham wrote: > > On Wed, 07 May 2008 09:36:56 -0400, Mark Roberts wrote >> John Whittingham wrote: >>> >>> Did you at sometime own the Tamron 17-35 f/2.8-4? >> Yes I did. I sold it when I bought the Pentax 16-50/2.8 but I always >> found the Tamron to be a wonderful lens. Highly recommended. They >> stopped making it in Pentax mount, at least for a while. >> > Good to know you have a positive impression, I've been offered one at > reasonable cost and I'm trying to make a decision. It would make a > good wide to normal zoom FL wise.
I always loved its image quality. The main reason I went to the Pentax 16-50 was for the weather sealing, which can be important for the kind of photography I like most. (How some of my cameras and lenses have survived downpours on Grandfather Mountain and elsewhere I'll never know!) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
