Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Friday, August 26, 2005, at 08:49 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >>> Informed sources whose jobs would be in danger if they were named. But >>> also anyone who's worked in a camera shop and had the opportunity to >>> hold the Tamron and Canon version of the same lens at the same time >>> will >>> tell you it's obvious. (Most of Nikon's cheap "consumer grade" zooms >>> are also Tamrons.) >> >>May be "obvious", but it's wrong. In both cases. > >Have things changed lately? I've *disassembled* these things. Believe >me, they're the same in many cases.
To clarify: The only ones I've actually had in pieces were a Nikon 70-300 (or 75-300) and the corresponding Tamron. Absolutely identical internally and externally. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
