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Subject: [OM] Re: Experience with Tamron SP 17mm f/3.5?
From: Skip Williams <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:25:48 -0500
I have the hood.

I'm going to take some shots with it and make up my mind in a week or two.

Skip

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>Subject: [OM] Re: Experience with Tamron SP 17mm f/3.5?
>   From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
>   Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:01:20 -0000
>     To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>Me too Skip, the same version as Walt, with the same opinion (except in my
>case it is a notional Zuiko 21/2.  And a notional Zuiko 21/3.5, for that
>matter).  
>
>The only possible downside I can think of is the cost of the hood, without
>which you can't fit filters to this version.  But at least the hood is still
>available, unlike some other Tamron specials. Though they are 82mm filters.
>
>Piers 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Walt Wayman
>Sent: 31 January 2004 03:36
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: Experience with Tamron SP 17mm f/3.5?
>
>
>Skip,
>
>What can I say?  I've got one, the later version without the internal
>filters.  I'm well pleased with it.  I've never much cared for fisheyes, and
>so the Tamron is the widest lens I've got.  I find it useful for the times
>the 21/2 Zuiko isn't quite wide enough, and it's a surprisingly good
>performer, IMNSHO.  I shot my TOPE 15 with it.
>
>http://www.millennics.com/olympus/tope/tope15/pictures/tope15_10
>
>Walt
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he
>needs." -- Mark Twain (defining the cause of Zuikoholism a century ago)
>
>
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Skip Williams <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Date:  Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:51:10 -0500
>
>>
>>Does anyone have any experience with the Tamron 17mm f/3.5 SP Adaptall 
>>lens?  I've borrowed one from a local store to try it out.  The build 
>>quality looks pretty high.
>>
>>Skip
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