Originally Posted by creampuff
Where do you get the information that the lens is a re-badged Tamron?
To my understanding only the Pentax FA 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 superzoom was attributed to be a Tamron design, though this was never publicly acknowledged by Pentax...
I can assure you, it was, the only difference between "Tamron" badged lenses, Pentax added their own zoom grip, typical to most of their current zoom lenses. Otherwise, 100% Tamron down to the pinch-style front cover (full specs of tamron here:
http://www.tamron.com/assets/pdfs/179D.pdf and my old Pentax lens
http://www.pentaxforums.com/lensrevi...05mm_F4-56.jpg, and the hood to Tamron since it is not in the manual picture
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/l...ges/169282.jpg)
Regards,
D