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Yeah - I loved the focal length and the IQ was good enough, but it was just such a cludge - nothing felt good about it. Forgot to mention that the AF sucked on a 7D too. Worst was the hood - you could never just take the lens out of the bag, you'd always have 3 fingers round the lens and 2 trying to bring the hood and the cap out with it. Glad to see that one gone.
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Bramley said:
Yeah - I loved the focal length and the IQ was good enough, but it
was just such a cludge - nothing felt good about it. Forgot to
mention that the AF sucked on a 7D too. Worst was the hood - you
could never just take the lens out of the bag, you'd always have 3
fingers round the lens and 2 trying to bring the hood and the cap out
with it. Glad to see that one gone.
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AF is okay on the A700, certainly a lot better than the Tamron 90mm

Hood does come off but not very often for me, not with my pouches or slingshot.

No idea where my lens cap is, never use them!
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Sorry for this late reaction.

Are you referring to the Autofocus or manual focus and which version? I'm looking for a manual focus, but understand that there are three versions, two with a 67mm filter threat of which one is supposed to be good. Can you help me here?

best, blauwemac
 
Probably the Tokina 24-200mm

Lovely metal build, but the optics are flawed, and badly.

CA monster, on film and APS. Massive barrel distortion WA, and mega pincushion tele end.
Very low contrast, even lower than the film kit lenses.

At the 75mm + length, everything beats it, even the 75-300mm D kit lens, easily!

Sharpness passable on APS but not great, poor on 35mm FF, very soft 24mm end, very poor corners.

Too heavy for a walkaround lens.

Shame as the lens is really nicely built. Sold it on ebay, and interestingly the buyer posted a review on Dyxum, and gave it rave scores! Hmmmm, lol

Other than that, the 2 Sony 18-70mm DT's, not very good WA, bad corners, unusable tele end at anything other than f8. Ditched both, and kept the much better KM copy of that lens.

Aside from that, nothing else stands out as bad..or horrible.
 
The Sony 2x teleconverter. Works fine w/70-200G but no AF w/70-400G. For the price of one that out works with all telephoto lenses....

At any rate mine is no EBAY right now reasonably priced. I just don't use is often enough. No complaints about the IQ though as some in the forum have suggested...

Jim in Vt
 
Well I have a tie.

First would be my beloved Sigma 24-60mm f/2.8. Tack sharp when new and in less than a year began missing focus. I sent it to Sigma and they couldn't get parts to fix it. So they sent me a Sigma 28-75 f2.8 as a replacement. That lens was nice, but it isn't wide enough for APS-C so I sold it. No more Sigma lens for me unless they are dirt cheap.

Next up is the legendary beer can , Minolta 70-210 f/4. Highly overrated IMHO. I guess I got a bad copy. It was heavy, not sharp wide open at the long end, and tons of purple fringing.
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Gary in PA
 
I got two.

Minolta 50mm f1.7; just not that usefull to me. Not wide enough on APS-C to be much good indoors and not flexible like a zoom for normal shooting.

Sigma 500mm f7.2; good lens when I shot film, but too much color fringing and it needs to be stopped to f13 or f14 to be sharp. My Tamron 200-500 is sharpest f7.1- f8, so it has replaced the Sigma.

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So far, I've only really had one, and it wasn't that bad. The Sigma 70-300 APO was bought in a pinch when I needed a ~$200 telephoto lens to take pictures at my first Space Shuttle launch viewing. For the launch, it did great. I got shots not possible with my 16-80.

Later on, the limitations of the lens began to get to me. The slow AF and rotating front element were minor issues, but the soft images at anything wider than f8 were most frustrating. There was a clear difference in pictures taken with my 16-80CZ and the Sigma (which is understandable given the price differrence). So, I sold the lens to a co-worker who just bought her first DSLR and picked up a 70-300G.
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Came as kit with 700si. Felt cheap, looked cheap, pictures so so, zoom with irregular torque. Didn´t use it much, not even tried it on digital. Still have it though... :-|
 
I tried a KM 18-70 thinking it might be a decent WA-only option on the 7D to complement the 28-75. First impressions when I opened it was that I'd never seen a lens that I would call "cute". In use, "cute" translated to "cheap" and in pictures, "cheap" translated to "lacking detail". And that wobble in the VF. Yuck !

Back in the 1980's I bought a Pentax Program Plus with a Sigma 28-70/2.8-4. The Sigma cost all of $70. My pictures were soft (compared to previous Yashica FX3 with 50/1.8) but I was a dumb "kid" with no clue that the the $70 zoom might not be as good as the Yashica prime ! Once, I removed a filter from the Sigma and the front lens element came off with the filter.

I've used about 25 different lenses and liked some more than others, but those two stand well below the rest :)
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Tamron AF 70-300 F4-5.6 Di LD. LOADS of CA. It made my eyes hurt. Also had the Sigma 70-300 APO DG. Sold the Tamron.
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... the Minolta f/4-5,6 28-80 sold back in 1999 as a kit lens

and

the Sigma 3,5-5,6/18-50 which, no wonder, performed at the same level as its cost of about 80 Euros (new) back in 2005.

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Cheers,
Michael Fritzen
 
Oppp.... let me correct my post. 50mm 1.4 is not the least but the best.

I have no lens I deslike. In fact every single lens I got was for a porpuse and after carefull consideration. :)

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Joao Cardoso
 
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