jwolfe wrote:
Sony isn't going to stop Tamron selling to others. Sony sells to everyone. But getting a hold of more manufacturing capacity and engineers is not a bad thing. i expect to see a lot of this in the future.
That’s a really relevant point about Sony “selling to others.” Take sensors, for example…
That’s actually one reason to hope that this might not cause Tamron prices to rise. If Tamron is still going to sell lenses for non-Sony cameras, where a big part of the appeal is the lower cost of third-party lenses, Sony/Tamron would have to keep that price advantage on those other platforms in order to maintain market share. And if the price of some particular lens that the configure for Nikon, Canon, Fujifim is $X, then it would be hard for the to sell that same lens at $X+ to Sony users.
Jul 31, 2026 at 09:03 AM
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