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<blockquote data-quote="westmill" data-source="post: 55318" data-attributes="member: 9330">the tamron 17-50 2.8 would be a good option for that. I have one, and its dificult to fault to be honnest.Image quality is excellent and its F2.8 its well built and looks the part. I find the biggest draw back is its very noisy when focussing.I shot a wedding using it the other day, and I was very aware lol. What is funny though, later at the reception I swapped cameras andpicked up the d300 which had the 18-70 attached. This is virtualy silent. I kid you not.... because i had been using the noisey tamron all day,I seriously thought there was sumit wrong with my camera or lens. Like it wasnt focussing. Of course it was fine. I actualy checked the settingsI was so convinced lol. the other draw back with the 17-50 tamron is the same as the nikon 17-55... it suffers excessive feild curvature at 17mm.Stopping down to F8 cures it, as it does on 17-55. Everywhere else, you can shoot happily even wide open.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="westmill, post: 55318, member: 9330"] the tamron 17-50 2.8 would be a good option for that. I have one, and its dificult to fault to be honnest. Image quality is excellent and its F2.8 its well built and looks the part. I find the biggest draw back is its very noisy when focussing. I shot a wedding using it the other day, and I was very aware lol. What is funny though, later at the reception I swapped cameras and picked up the d300 which had the 18-70 attached. This is virtualy silent. I kid you not.... because i had been using the noisey tamron all day, I seriously thought there was sumit wrong with my camera or lens. Like it wasnt focussing. Of course it was fine. I actualy checked the settings I was so convinced lol. the other draw back with the 17-50 tamron is the same as the nikon 17-55... it suffers excessive feild curvature at 17mm. Stopping down to F8 cures it, as it does on 17-55. Everywhere else, you can shoot happily even wide open. [/QUOTE]

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