Color and sharpness of photos taken outside in decent light.

Lens hood is not easy to attach and indoor shooting in low light can be disapionting. Some flair problems in tricky lighting conditions.

I have used this lens for years and overall had very good results. It does have a tendency to flair if you are doing some sunsets or tricky lighting. The color for outside landscapes has been great. However indoor shoots with low lighting have been disappionting.

Customer Service

Never Needed

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Sigma 28

Good focus. Excellent price. Sharp pictures.

Faster autofocus higher speed apeture, maybe 2.8 It''s not the Tamron 24-135

I have no idea why everyone has been down on this lense. Because it''s one of the oldest of the new breeds of extra-wide angle zoom, it had it''s flaws in beginning manuacturing, but mine is sharp and has little aberration. For all those who spoke of flair. You aren''t using your own equipment properly.

Customer Service

Never needed

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Sigma 24-70 Canon 24-85

Very handy focal length,
light weight,Very sharp
when stopped down.
Great value for the price

Almost no tradein value
Idon,t care for the cheap looking finish

Good value

Customer Service

NA

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28-200 old style

Good range, light weight. Optical results on Kodachrome slides indistinguishable from my Canon consumer zoom lenses.

Noisy focus motor. Rotating front element. Staining when rubber grips get wet from rain!

A very useful, sharp and contrasty lens with no optical vices. Have not noticed any distortion, and illumination into corners of the frame is good.

Customer Service

Not needed.

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Canon EF 28-80 zoom Mk.1

Nice range for travel
compact - also good for travel

rotating front ring - very irritating w/ polarizer
poor optical quality - very disappointing

what was I thinking buying this thing?
oh yeah, it's cheap and convenient.

Don't do it.

Customer Service

n/a

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my first zoom

Light weight
Focuses to .4 meters
Very little light fall off wide open
Virtually no distortion throughout the focal range

Flares to easliy, though blocking the sun with a hand out of frame or an object in the frame solves the problem.

f/5.6 aperture makes for a darkish viewfinder on my EOS 630 at the telephoto end

Superb image quality at 5x7" and below. Excellent image sharpness at 8x10" (6x9" image) and decent/acceptable quality at 16x20." Other lenses in this focal length range seem to have quite evident barrel distortion at the wide end however this one's near rectilinear (sans linear distortion) throughout w/c makes it great for door edges, buildings, etc. Though not quite up to the superb magnificance in sharpness and contrast as my Maxxum 24-50mm lens or my 28mm and 16mm Zeiss SLR lenses, this lens delivers excellent quality and a good value for the money. When I got this lens it was the only option available for its zoom range in AF other than the Sigma, now that Canon has its own 24-85mm I am still glad I got this lens because it has much lower distortion at the wide end than the Canon lens. Unless you own a Maxxum camera (where you can get a 24-50mm Maxxum zoom lens of stellar quality), this is an excellent alternative to OEM manufacturer zooms in this range - get it! PS. - Nikon has just come out w/ a 24-85mm f/2.8 to f/4 lens whose faster aperture now makes that a lens to look into if you already own the Nikon brand (I don't but I figure I'd mention it as a faster OEM alternative to the Tamron). This Tamron was made for street shooting/events - 28mm just doesn't cut it for me anymore and the focal length is very flexible. Only faults of this lens (as mentioned above) are flare (veiling glare) from sun in or near the edge of the frame and a darkish f/5.6 aperture w/c means you get a darker viewfinder in the camera and need to use faster film (400 or better) in less than optimum light. Still a good deal, though!

Customer Service

Fast and courteous

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Nikon 25-50mm AIS

Smallish lens. Close to "normal" lens in size, although a little larger in diameter. Not much light falloff at 24mm, even wide open. 62mm filter size.

Not very sharp optically, but maybe I bought a lemon.

I bought it used at $105.00 on eBay. The seller on eBay probably laughed at me. I would not recommend this lens. Optics are not up to Nikkor standards by any means. But, this isn't their SP line.

Customer Service

None yet, unnless I get tired of this lack of sharpness and use the lens as a doorstop.

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Sharp F6.3-11, NO DISTORTION, small, cheap, good machanism

Flare wide open

Best choice for the price

Customer Service

O.K.

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Canon 28-105/3.5-4.5 USM, 2.8/24 EF, 1.4/50 USM EF, Nikkor 28-70/3.5-4.5

Very usefull zoom range.
Compact.
Light weight.
Good optical performance as a consumer zoom lens.
Minimal distortion at 24mm.

I mounted in to my Nikon FM for overseas pleasure tour. It makes the view finder dark and difficult to focus (of-course manually) beyond 50mm because of the small F5.6 opening aperture.
Flare easily and the hood doesn't help much.

This little baby is not as bad as someone had discribed in this panel. I've used it for light travelling since 1996. I brought it with me to Europe and the Middle East. The colour prints are OK and some of them even exceeded my expectation.

The facts are that :
1. it is not a prime and therefore can not compete with primes in terms of sharpness.
2. it is not expensive and therefore can not be compared to the Nikon AFS.
3. It is light and compact and is a good companion for travelling, in which one wishes to avoid carrying heavy and bulky equipment. Or one may opt for the P&S and forgo controls over pictures. The Minilux and T3 are different stories.
4. It offers good colour rendition and sharpness when stopped down.

I would rate it 4 star, but I recommand it be used on AF body (see weakness). It is a AF lens anyway.

Customer Service

Never since I bought it in 1996.

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