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Lens Poll.

Started May 17, 2017 | Polls thread
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Re: Lens Poll.
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fishy wishy wrote:

I think Tamron have it right, in manufacturing 35/1.8 VC and 85/1.8 VC instead of f1.4 equivalents. If you offered me the choice of those and a Sigma f1.4 Art I'd take the Tamrons... because in practice it's rather hard to use the f1.4 re DOF. The only Tamron lens I don't really want is the 45mm f1.8 VC. It's just not a 50mm, it's not long enough and it's not as special as the others. Would have preferred a 58mm f1.8 VC.

The current Tamrons also have a handy bonus in closer-focusing and higher reproduction ratio. For hobbyist photography around the house and on walkabout this and VC are far more useful than ego-trip superfast lenses.

This is along the lines of what I'm saying (but, in the specific case of the Tamron primes, the CA is simply unacceptable, the VC is marginal, and the sharpness is not quite there until stopped down a bit).

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