At 18:28 8/21/02, Jim Brokaw wrote:
Its all on credit card, and I'm thinking that most of it will get resold...
I was mostly interested in the 35-105/3.5-4.5 lens... and I *still* don't
have any money...! I'm holding off on the Tamron 1.4x you're leading on...
I bought my 35-105/3.5~4.5 with some trepidation knowing it's a 3X zoom
that has 16 elements in 12 groups. That's quite a lot of glass with many
air-glass interfaces. Furthermore, it has greater complexity with
"one-touch" focus and zoom, with a "close-focus" mechanism. When the first
slides came back that were shot through it I was pleasantly shocked at
their contrast. Although it doesn't quite have the resolving power of my
50/1.2, it comes very, very close, and its high contrast does compensate
for that some.
IMO, it is a marvelous zoom lens. I use it primarily as a "walk-around"
lens for "editorial" type shooting that requires multiple focal lengths
when using several primes is infeasible or impossible. Wish it were a
constant aperture f/2.8, but I rarely use it indoors or under low light
conditions outdoors.
-- John
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