On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:59:51 -0400, by32 wrote:

>Any comments on which one is better, I'd like to buy a decent lense but
>the Canon is 3x more expensive, or should I maybe just buy two
>consumer-grade Canons like the 28-105 and 100-300. Tokina is about
>$400 and the Sigma is $300. Thanks for any input

I rarely have much good to say about off-brand lenses, since they
are generally pretty poor compared with the middling-to-best
Nikkors I use, but once in a while I'm surprised, as I was by a
recent trial of a Sigma 28-70 f2.8 - it was quite good...