It’s weird how so many people slate Tamron lenses and yet my 28-300 (the most commonly slated lens) gets me perfectly acceptable, sharp, clear results, and it gives me them consistently. It’s also given fellow forum member Adam Spalding consistently good results when he borrowed it for his recent travels in the US. One thing I have noticed about the basic Canon 75-300 is it can suffer from quite dramatic chromatic abberation, which is something I don’t see to anything like the same degree on the Tamron. The Canon is perhaps a tad sharper than the Tamron but it does suffer in other ways. The 28-300 actually spends most of its time on my EOS 10 film SLR where it performs admirably and I have to say, I find the build quality to be very reasonable and solid. Ahh well… All interesting stuff!

Paul

I must have had a Friday afternoon one!