today i managed to drop my 5d from a park bench during a portrait shoot and broke my sigma 24-70/2.8 in the process.
broken
by keith_r_rutherford, on Flickri wasn't planning on replacing it but my hand has been forced and it's just jumped to the top of my list
my budget won't stretch to the canon 24-70/2.8 so my options are the tamron 28-75/2.8 or another sigma 24-70/2.8. i've been second shooting at a few weddings and appreciate the width the 24mm on the sigma offers and the af is pretty quick, but mine was quite soft at 2.8 and the af on the 5d doesn't help tbh. i've been reading about the sharpness of the tamron but that the focussing is slower, just how slow is it? and is the hsm version of the sigma much better than the older non-hsm versions?
before i had broken this lens i was looking at another prime, either on of the 50/1.4's or the 28/1.8. i don't fancy going without a standard zoom just yet, so it'll be either the tamron or a variation of the sigma lens.
opinions on this would be appreciated since i have no experience of either the tamron or sigma hsm.
