Originally posted by kenyee lol...exactly what I was thinking. Note that the press release was just an "announcement" that they were working on something. Like the 10-24, it probably means "well, we got all the internal lenses put together into a plastic PVS plumbing tube and the image looks sharp sorta, so now we can *market* it and worry about the actual engineering later". Again, no ETA in the press release and I'll bet if you ask the Tamron folks like I did for the 10-24, they'll just be embarrassed and say "yeah, we don't know why Tamron Japan just announces crap w/o an ETA"
Perhaps they expect Sigma to launch a successor at photokina to their now over classed 18-200mm design and this is sort of a pre-emptive strike to not let them get the full super zoom stage there? (I know far fetched speculation).
Two things are striking, only Canon and Nikon mounts and pretty significant size increase yet no improvement in aperture on both ends (perhaps in between?). Of course it goes to 270mm now perhaps with slightly improved sharpness at 200mm+ and the VC prolly increases it's size, but where does that leave body stabilized DSLR owners? Will they be "stuck" with the 18-250mm design, are they gonna slim the new one down without VC or just keep the size? I reckon most body stabilized DSLR owners would've preferred a larger aperture if a new design was gonna be that much bigger.
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