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15 mm wide f2,8 amd stabilized lens really too good to be true
Interested in the lens however knowing the technical challenge it raises I don't know what to expect and since it doesn't exist here. importing it, without possibility for return/exchange seems crazy
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Markus is on it (more or less)
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It is a very sharp lens, beating the Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8 in performance.
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Sounds kinda too good to be true BC! I've never owned the 14-24 - having left the Nikon camp before it was released - but I worked with files from it, years later. Sharp corners at 14mm, wide open, on a full frame body. Un-freaking-believable. The Tamron has to be extraordinary in order to meet, let alone beat, this standard.
Just as a matter of interest "Tony Northrup Photography" dropped the Tamron and showed an image of the result, it was completely broken into many pieces with bits hanging out, Tony didn't look to bothered as it was on loan from Tamron!
I think Sigma's construction is better.