impressed with keh repair/thoughts on tamron 17-50 f2.8

[jann1033]

with KEH it took less than 2 weeks to get my 70-200 f4 canon lens from my door broken back to my door fixed, they were great to work with, stuck with the original estimate of $40 less than canon wanted just to look at it, you actually could talk to the guy handling the repair ( who was nice as well) and so far it works great. the calibration took care of the softness over f8/11 so now it looks sharp thru out the whole range( didn't try it with a tripod, i figured if it's sharp hand held with my shaky hands it would be better on a tripod). one happy camper and i love that lens again

by and large i think i will like the tamron, much better than my other $400 lens( 28-135 was close to that when i bought it) it really looks desaturated and not nearly as contrasty looking thru the lens vs the 70-200 but looks fine out of the camera( i think i have faithful or landscape pic style set can't remember right now) i mostly used my longer lens today ( i love to take a 1:4 macro sitting on a shady bench 4 feet away from the plant) but the few i took with the 17 were fine and look nice and sharp, , even at 50mm where i heard it has some problems. i didn't really see any ca either but then again i didn't really take any shots where it would really show up. i'll have to go early weds if i can and use it more for some wider angles. it got hot to quick today