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Subject: Re: [OM] 17mm
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:42:09 -0500
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From: Bernard Frangoulis <bcf@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:10:16 +0100

>
>Yep, thanks Walt. I had read this indeed, and although I was 
>deeply enlightened by the profound wisdom of these 
>considerations, there are a couple of tiny bits of knowledge that 
>still elude me... :-)
>
>If anyone has used both the Tamron and the Tokina, how do they 
compare?

I don't have a clue, never having possessed a Tokina.  My sharper-
than-a-serpent's-tooth son, a sinful N*k*n user, has a couple, and 
I, as you might expect, being predisposed toward disapproval, am 
underwhelmed by what I see.  

>How does the clamp-on hood of the newer version Tamron look like? 
>Does it have "indents", or is it a "classical" hood?

Yeah, it's of the tulip sort, kind of like the 35-80/2.8 hood, 
except made of a rigid substance of some kind and not flexible 
like the rubber (?) Zuiko hood.  It has double clamping screws and 
a mark by which it is aligned with the lens so as to avoid the 
dreaded vignetting phenomenon.

Let me add that one of my favorite, most-used lenses is the 21/2 
Zuiko (see my landscape TOPE), and the 17/3.5 Tamron is not quite 
up to that standard.  But it's not that that far off, either, and 
if you consider the dollar difference, it's one helluva bargain.

Walt





 


 
                   

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