roger2013

Thank you to those who provided advice. I bought the Tamron, and it seems promising, though makes me want the 17-28 to go with it. It wasn't really a 200 mm sort of day yesterday and I mostly had ...

There is a lot of sensible advice on this thread. One point I would add is that if a grey market seller offers you a warranty, it might mean that they will make a manufacturer warranty claim in ...

I had seen this site, and it was one of several conflicting reviews of the 28-200 I had seen that motivated my posting. But I admit I had not noticed that I could compare these two lenses directly ...

I am happy to stand corrected on the original photos. In any case if I put both of them through Topaz Sharpen AI (my usual sharpening software) I suspect they would be completely indistinguishable. ...

This is the process I went through too, though with me the comparison is not with the RX100 but with a MFT camera And yes, it is probably just a matter of making the psychological adjustment to ...

Thank you very much for this. My first reaction, looking at the chairs and the building, was that the Tamron was clearly softer--not by much but noticeable. But then I looked at the gulls and the ...

Thanks, the advice on secondhand is potentially useful.

Is there any evidence on how these two lenses compare at 200mm? In short, if I went for the Tamron, would I lose anything by selling the Sony? Apart from the max aperture of course.

I should have added that I already have the 300 and the converters, and much of the time the 2x is on it. However, there are times when it is inflexible, and I want to zoom out quickly because ...

I fully realise that distance is a problem, especially under certain weather conditions, but I just wanted to make the point that I am not interested in how good the lens is at 10 metres, because ...

The 100-400 with 1.4 converter gives 560mm, compared with the 600 of the 300 with 2x converter. Very similar (at least in theory if the 100-400 really does go to 400). The max aperture is just ...

I use two from old film days. One is an Ohnar slide copier (I think Soligor did something similar), with built in tiny lens. It comes with T-mount and an adapter to M42 or OM, and I then use an ...