thanks for your comments, I get the feeling I should look around
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From: "Carlos J. Santisteban Salinas" <cjss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Lista de correo Olympus" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Tamron 28-80 F3.5/4.2 Adaptall-2 Model 27A Lens
> >Is the above lens a good one? Anyone who is familiar with it?
>
> Hi, Titoy and all.
>
> I had this lens about a year ago, and returned it after 5 days...
>
> If you are concerned about wide-open performance, I'm afraid you won't
like
> it. However, now I've got a Tamron SP 28-135 F4-4.5 (Model 28A), which
> seems much sharper, but it's noticeably heavier and gives a somewhat
'warm'
> tone to the pics.
>
> I posted my impressions about this lens a while ago. This is what I said:
>
> >*At 28mm seems acceptable when wide-open, and at f/5.6 is _very_ sharp.
> >*In the 35-50 mm range is OK when stopped down, but wide-open is rather
soft.
> >*At 80mm, wide open is awful -- very soft with _extremely low_ contrast.
> >Stopped down to f/8, contrast is OK, but corners are still fuzzy. In
fact,
> >my SP 70-210/3.5 at 80mm and f/3.5 is _way better_ than the 28-80 @
f/8!!!
> >
> >Talking about flare control, also very poor. However, mine came without
> >the original hood, and I've heard this lens improves dramatically with
it.
> >
> >At least, that were the results of my particular sample. However, your
> >mileage may vary -- I'm very critical about wide-open performance.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
> ...
>
> Carlos J. Santisteban
>
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