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From: Bernard Frangoulis <bcf@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:10:16 +0100
>
>Yep, thanks Walt. I had read this indeed, and although I was
>deeply enlightened by the profound wisdom of these
>considerations, there are a couple of tiny bits of knowledge that
>still elude me... :-)
>
>If anyone has used both the Tamron and the Tokina, how do they
compare?
I don't have a clue, never having possessed a Tokina. My sharper-
than-a-serpent's-tooth son, a sinful N*k*n user, has a couple, and
I, as you might expect, being predisposed toward disapproval, am
underwhelmed by what I see.
>How does the clamp-on hood of the newer version Tamron look like?
>Does it have "indents", or is it a "classical" hood?
Yeah, it's of the tulip sort, kind of like the 35-80/2.8 hood,
except made of a rigid substance of some kind and not flexible
like the rubber (?) Zuiko hood. It has double clamping screws and
a mark by which it is aligned with the lens so as to avoid the
dreaded vignetting phenomenon.
Let me add that one of my favorite, most-used lenses is the 21/2
Zuiko (see my landscape TOPE), and the 17/3.5 Tamron is not quite
up to that standard. But it's not that that far off, either, and
if you consider the dollar difference, it's one helluva bargain.
Walt
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