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<p>This lens' focal length and aperture made sense to me on a crop sensor. I read a favorable review before buying this lens on ebay. I use it as a walkaround for landscape, street, portrait work. Sharp. Fast. I am quite thrilled with it.</p><div></div>

<p>...maybe someone suggested this and I just missed it, but I would suggest that you got to lensrentals.com, rent each of the cameras you are considering for a week or two each, then buy the one that makes the most sense to you then...</p>

<p>...I do count myself lucky in that I got a good copy of the lens first time: I tried it out at my local calumet photo and the AF was fine out the box; though slow for sure... More than half the time, though, I focus manually anyway...</p>

<p>...If you're buying and can afford it, buy the 70-200 f2.8 IS. If that's too much cash then buy the tamron.<br>

I rented the canon and the tamron from Lensrentals.com for a month apiece, and used a friend's sigma for a couple weeks. Nothing outdoes the canon: nothing. On the other hand, iq can be approached with the tamron quite nicely - and the tamron's iq and bokeh were, for me anyway, superior to the sigma. Outdoors or in any well-lit scene it is pin-sharp wide-open, and indoors the tamron can capture stationary targets, or from a stationary position, with only the barest obvious difference from the canon; in fact you would have to compare the images closely, side-by-side, to see that barest bit of difference. F/2.8 makes much difference indoors, and for stopping action, so for a wedding I wouldn't bother limiting myself with f/4.<br>

I bought the tamron based on my budget. Though there's no IS, build quality is on a par higher than standard consumer lenses, and at its price point it's good to have for my wanderings. I'll rent the superb canon if I'm being paid.</p><div></div>

...the moment'sgravity is played out on his face during the Presidential

inauguration...<div></div>

Maria Sharapova!?!?! BOIIINNNNNGGGGG!!!!

sRGB, new layer, selective levels ( the shadowed areas of the gorilla), flatten image.

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/7846515

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