I personally never buy something unless I have read a review or two, but I will go ahead and thank those willing to pre-order and test the waters for us.
Delighted you're taking one for the team. I'm also going to pull the trigger on this. I've have 2 Canon 24-70's that didn't quite meet expectations and wound up with a beautiful little Tammy 28-75 - which I sold recently for the same amount bought 3 years ago. Looking forward the the ultrasonic motor and image stabilzation.
Looks like it will be $1200 for Canada, just a bit later on the shipping date. Look forward to taking it for a test drive and seeing how it compares to the Nikon.
Richard Nye wrote:
wow, more expensive than I thought it would be.
Really? Considering its $1000 less than the new Canon 24-70 and has IS, I think the price looks right. Of course, if they dropped to under $1000, I'd be ok with that too
If this lens is sharp and the AF is consistent, they have hit a home run.
If this performs equal to or better than the 24-70 vI, then Tamron may well take a huge dent from 24-70 II sales. Canon's delay in getting that lens out may end up costing them...
I agree. Four figure price and no reviews is not going to open my wallet.
Whoever is running Tamron's marketing department should be fired. They should have these in the hands of some working pros and review sites now or in the next week or so to try to generate some positive press (assuming the lens performs). Anybody read Korean: http://blog.naver.com/sp_marketing/70135338669
GC5 wrote:
Whoever is running Tamron's marketing department should be fired. They should have these in the hands of some working pros and review sites now or in the next week or so to try to generate some positive press (assuming the lens performs). Anybody read Korean: http://blog.naver.com/sp_marketing/70135338669
Why?
What's the hurry? Canon is making it easy for Tamron to sell this lens, because the new Canon is very expensive and has been delayed. Tamron will have months to get this lens out there, getting plenty of good reviews, and generate sales.
There is the question that remains to be answered:
At this price, is it better than the current Canon? IQ, AF, build quality are all unknowns.
We'll know in about a month, which is much sooner than the new Canon.
I personally never buy something unless I have read a review or two, but I will go ahead and thank those willing to pre-order and test the waters for us.
interesting, wow that's early the original talk made it sound like we'd be lucky to see it by the end of 2012 or so well then basically never
i have doubts as to whether it would be quite good enough to give up my 24 1.4 II for while the 24-70 II just might be, but who knows, IS can be useful too, we'll see
tmaron 17-50 and 28-75 were L beaters (well, assuming you don't need focusing speed and are OK with the 17-50 attracting swarms of hornets ), OTOH, as amazing truly amazing as it is for the price the tamron 70-300 vc is definitely no L beater
deepbluejh wrote:
I'm concerned about the edges on FF with this lens. Tamron seems to make decent lenses for crop bodies, but FF edge sharpness has not impressed me.
I was actually surprised to find that the tamron 70-300 VC actually did better at the edges than at the center compared to the L's. Wide open edge performance was never as good in the center across the entire range but was sometimes close or the same near the edge!
And my tamron 28-75 while not amazing at FF edges at 28mm is better than the two 24-105L I tried there.
have both Tammy 28-70 and the 24-70 Canon...Tammy is much smaller...but softer on edges w/our full frame 1Ds2's...OK w/our 1Dn's...also, the Tammy is much slower to 'lock on' in low light. The Tammy build is decent... a really nice small lens. Prefer it to our 24-105 for a 'walk about'.
