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Tamron, Sigma, Canon, or Canon?

Started Sep 14, 2017 | Polls thread
diness Veteran Member • Posts: 3,758
Re: Tamron, Sigma, Canon, or Canon?
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Forever Young wrote:

Purely from the image quality point of view, which one would you choose for 35mm and 85mm primes, assuming that you already have the range covered by f/2.8 zoom lenses and these would be your first primes?

Thanks,

Imre

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Because you said "purely from an image quality point of view, my actual answer probably would have been the Canon 35mm f1.4L ii and the sigma 85 art, but since it wasn't an option, I went all L's.

To be honest though, all these options are pretty good.  The Tamrons are really quite good, and you will appreciate VC.   The 35 f2 is and 85mm f1.8 from Canon are a great pair that I currently own.  They are very light and have nice bokeh and very good image quality for a very reasonable price.   The sigmas have excellent image quality and are built nicely but a little heavy.  The Canon L's have excellent image quality and are the top of the heap (don't know a lot about the 85 yet), but of course are expensive.  Seriously, none of the options are bad.

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