dkeller wrote:Check KEH.com. They have very good, reliable service and specialize in used equipment. B&H and Adorama are also very reliable but have less of a used selection.THANK YOU! The other way I spend money is with firearms, and while I dont hesitate to trust a Gunbroker posting with my money, I dont have an eBay track record to fall back on for assurance.

CaliforniaDave wrote:dkeller wrote:Check KEH.com. They have very good, reliable service and specialize in used equipment. B&H and Adorama are also very reliable but have less of a used selection.Also check MPB.com. I have sold numerous cameras and lenses to them and they have always treated me fairly. They sell used gear, and I would not hesitate to buy from them.Got it,, thx!

Bigbad401 wrote:This is from my Tamron 70-300 on my 6100. I accidently had my ISO at 1000, so disregard that. I like the Tamron, especially at its price (I could not afford the Sony 70-350).THAT is impressive!How is the build quality on the Tamron?Here is my decision tree: the used Sony is close to a new Tamron. Now, if I were dealing with Nikon, my decision is made, I have used Nikon glass for decades. But I am dealing with, for me, two unknowns -Sony and Tamron. Sony likes to price their optics. Whether those prices are justified, I dont know. Again, with Nikon, I paid and never looked back. But Im not shooting for my living now, its a hobby, so my price justification has changed.

My Tamron 70-300 with A7lii.

Pier23 wrote:Bigbad401 wrote:This is from my Tamron 70-300 on my 6100. I accidently had my ISO at 1000, so disregard that. I like the Tamron, especially at its price (I could not afford the Sony 70-350).THAT is impressive!How is the build quality on the Tamron?Here is my decision tree: the used Sony is close to a new Tamron. Now, if I were dealing with Nikon, my decision is made, I have used Nikon glass for decades. But I am dealing with, for me, two unknowns -Sony and Tamron. Sony likes to price their optics. Whether those prices are justified, I dont know. Again, with Nikon, I paid and never looked back. But Im not shooting for my living now, its a hobby, so my price justification has changed.I have no issues with the Tamron, build quality or image quality.  I have never held or shot with the Sony 70-350 so I won't comment on that.

dkeller wrote:My Tamron 70-300 with A7lii.Looks good. Based on the reviews I have seen, it might look a little better if shot at f/8 instead of f/13. Of course if your goal was to gain more DOF, then f/13 makes sense.

Good point, thanks.  I admit, I wasn't really paying attention to that and normally would shoot at f8.

dkeller wrote:My Tamron 70-300 with A7lii.WOW! Nice!I see that you also have a Tamron 18-270. Ages ago, lens doctrine was that having a wide angle to telephoto was too much of an optical trick to pull off well across all focal lengths.How is the 18-270 working for you?

Thanks all who were guiding my thinking with their experiences.I bit the eBay bullet and found a $620 Sony 70-350 that with tax and shipping kicks the entry fee to $700 and change, coming from Japan.Never having dealt with eBay before at this level, or with a shipment from Japan, this is going to be an interesting experience that I will either be quite satisfied with, or not….I DID get a Zorki from an eastern Europe seller years ago, but this was a whimsical purchase and the shipping cost more than the camera.Lens should be meeting my A6000 by end of month… in how many pieces-yet to be determined….

It is a A mount lens and I originally got it for my A700 and was very pleased with it. I do use on my A68, which is normally dedicated to my old Minolta 100-400 APO, as a backup on occasion--like when my memory card filled up on my A7ii on a trip through north Idaho, and I discovered I didn't have a spare. I was very pleased with it on that camera but haven't used it on an adapted APS-C E mount.