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Michael, I think your advice to Francois is probably on target. My shot (which, by the way, is cropped to about 25% of the original image) was taken at ISO 200. Of course, I could get away with that given the brilliant sunlight.

My other lens is the 43mm f/1.9 Limited which, while a prime, is a light sponge--I've been blown away by the available light test shots I've gotten at dusk.

I suspect you're right that, somewhere down the road, I'll want more out of the Tamron than it can give (and, perhaps, than I can afford) but, for the time being, the weak link is the photographer, not the equipment.

I'm a rank amateur who just migrated to the DSLR world from an Olympus C5060

wide zoom. I'm still very much in exploration/learning mode. I'm very happy so

far: the K100D is very user-friendly.

I just got the Tamron 18-250mm zoom. I haven't put it through systematic

testing yet but this photo makes me feel pretty good about it.

http://www.photo.net/photos/xpultah%20shoots