Decision time on A99

Congrats on the (forthcoming?) purchase.

I purchased the Tamron 28-75 and gave it the ol' college try. I'd used it (or an earlier version of the same lens) back in my Pentax days, when I liked it a lot. But it just didn't click with me on the A99. Image quality is okay. Maybe it felt too much like a (very good) kit lens. Not really sure. Anyway, I sent it back. Your mileage may vary, of course. It seems to be a good lens.

What I have now is a small set of primes:

• Sony 28 (purchased used via Amazon)
• Rokinon 35 (the manual-aperture, manual-focus non-cine model)
• Sony 50 f/1.4
• Sony 85 f/2.8

Which suits me quite well. My next purchase may be something in the 100-105 range, either the Sony or Sigma lenses.

The Rokinon 35 is quite good. I'm forcing myself to focus manually for everything now, which is a bit of a challenge, but I'm enjoying it. I like the 28 a lot, too. I would really like to get the Sigma 35 but I got the Rokinon on sale through BuyDig and paid less than half price. My only serious complaint about the Rokinon is not with the fact that I have to adjust the aperture manually or focus manually, but simply that the aperture choice doesn't get written to the EXIF data.

Again these are just the choices I've made for myself and I don't offer them really as recommendations for you or anybody else.

Will