The Tamron and the Sigma has both been at my radar. Alas they are not sealed, and at my part of the globe sealing helps my worry less. That's good for my blood pressure.
So sealed lenses is doctors order. That's my story, and I'll stick to it. -- MaritimTim My private photo blog: http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To err is human to arr is pirate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014-06-13 15:34 GMT+02:00 Bipin Gupta <bip...@gmail.com>: > I went for neither, but picked up the "Made in Japan" version of the > Tamron 17-50 for $ 425 brand new. > This lens is brutally sharp. I had to dial in +4 as my K-5 + the Tammy > was back focusing. > It is spot on the K20D though. > Expensive may not always be true unless one insists on going > Ricoh/Pentax all the way. > Regards. > Bipin. > camp: Thornhill, Ontario. > > -- > 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. -- 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.