Tamron/Tokina/Sigma reverse engineering??
Tamron/Tokina/Sigma reverse engineering??
May 19, 2006
Obligatory Justification:
This must have been discussed in some thread somewhere but after ten minutes of searching I didn't find anything useful so here goes:
I have noticed (or maybe there are just a lot more customers) that Sigma gets a huge number of complaints on the forums regarding incompatibility with new bodies (and rechipping) versus Tamron or Tokina. I have read (somewhere) on more than one occassion that Tamron and Tokina license the EOS/EF mount from Canon while Sigma reverse engineers it and therefore runs into troubles down the road and so needs rechipping. I almost never hear anything about Tamron/Tokina problems along those lines. Is this "licensing" a myth or is it true? I ask because all three companies make some great glass and I'd like to avoid building a system around lenses that might stop working after I upgrade my body in the future. Can someone point to a credible resource (such as an official announcement from the manufacturers) that can shed light on all this? Thanks.
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