Great photos Adam! Rainier sure is a beauty. I especially love the third one with the leaves changing, and the almost gradient of green to red going from one side of the photo to the other.
Gosh, I still love this lens. It has treated me well this summer. Here are some of my favorite shots from a backpacking trip in mid-July in Washington, all taken with this lens:
jakesherman wrote:
Gosh, I still love this lens. It has treated me well this summer. Here are some of my favorite shots from a backpacking trip in mid-July in Washington, all taken with this lens:
Wow! Amazing shots! I'm deciding between the 28-200mm or the Sony 24-105mm and I might have to go with the Tamron!
i have never been receptive to the superzoom, until the reviews and photos from this one. so i bought it at the end of august, did a few local shots to confirm sharpness and took it to the rhythm and roots music festival over labor day. this is the country musician charlie marie, at her main stage set on sunday, right in the middle of the afternoon. i believe this lens is just what i was looking for, it'll get it's next test in october as my outdoor walk around at disney world
I have owned super zooms in the past and never been fully comfortable with the image quality. This next 10 days I will be in Colorado for a mixed business and Fall color photography trip. I really had a hard time picking which lenses to bring.
My usual for a trip like this would be to bring my CV 15, Sony 24-105 G, and Sony 100-400 GM and a couple of top primes. But I now have the Tamron 17-28mm 2.8 and the Tamron 28-200 in my lens closet. I have tested the two Tamrons locally and found that stopped down for landscapes the IQ is surprisingly good. I have no doubts about the 17-28, it is an excellent zoom. Still a bit insecure about the 28-200 because of my bias against zooms with such a large FL range based on past experience. But I decided to go with it. This will be the acid test. OK, I admit that I brought 3 really good primes in the 25-55mm range just to be sure. These focal lengths will be the most important on this trip and I wanted to cover my ass if you know what I mean.
My hope is that my results with the 28-200 Tamron are good enough so that in the future I will feel comfortable traveling with just the two Tamrons, and the 35mm 1.4 GM . That would be a great, flexible and light travel setup.
In any case I will post some images, and update you all on how the experiment is going. The photography part of the trip begins on Sunday. Working until then. Fingers crossed.
1bwana1 wrote:
Nice images Frank. It would be nice if you could post the EXIF data along with the images. Tht helps us learn about the lens.
Thanks, Steve! If you click on the name/title of the image, it will take you to the Flickr page that will show EXIF data.
Edit: Ok, to save some time for those who may not want to go to Flickr and to assume that some may not be able to get to Flickr, basic EXIF data is posted under each pic. Thanks for the suggestion, Steve.
1bwana1 wrote:
I have owned super zooms in the past and never been fully comfortable with the image quality. This next 10 days I will be in Colorado for a mixed business and Fall color photography trip. I really had a hard time picking which lenses to bring.
My usual for a trip like this would be to bring my CV 15, Sony 24-105 G, and Sony 100-400 GM and a couple of top primes. But I now have the Tamron 17-28mm 2.8 and the Tamron 28-200 in my lens closet. I have tested the two Tamrons locally and found that stopped down for landscapes the IQ is surprisingly good. I have no doubts about the 17-28, it is an excellent zoom. Still a bit insecure about the 28-200 because of my bias against zooms with such a large FL range based on past experience. But I decided to go with it. This will be the acid test. OK, I admit that I brought 3 really good primes in the 25-55mm range just to be sure. These focal lengths will be the most important on this trip and I wanted to cover my ass if you know what I mean.
My hope is that my results with the 28-200 Tamron are good enough so that in the future I will feel comfortable traveling with just the two Tamrons, and the 35mm 1.4 GM . That would be a great, flexible and light travel setup.
In any case I will post some images, and update you all on how the experiment is going. The photography part of the trip begins on Sunday. Working until then. Fingers crossed....Show more →
Finished my meetings this afternoon. Drove from Denver to Carbondale to start my photography time. It looks like I am a bit early for Fall colors. They are kind of spotty but the locals say they are changing quickly now. Hopefully they will get better over the next 5 days.
I kept my a1 with the Tamron 28-200 on the seat next to me. I literally pulled of to the shoulder on the I70 Hwy and shot this bit of Aspen grove. This lens is perfect for this task.
Made a trip up to Crystal Colorado to photograph the old Mill. Mostly used wide primes, but I did shoot a series with the Tamron 28-200mm zoom. It does a nice job with plenty of detail. However when pixel peeping it doesn't keep up with my best primes of of course. Mostly in the extreme corners.
In order to preserve detail in the clouds I shot a bracket and blended two of the images. I also had a CPL on for this image.
I came across this big bull and calf grazing in a field with the bright green grass, Aspens showing just the beginnings of change, and the brush in the back in vibrant color. It was a marvelous scene so I pulled over and shot it out the SUV window. One of the convince features of the Tamron 28-200mm has going for it.
I am now shooting both RAW and JPEG as part of the experiment. Partly because the version of Light Room on my travel laptop can't read the a1 files and I am unable to update it for some reason. I am actually very happy with the results in the JPEGS. I think it is better than what I get out of the third party editor I was trying to use to edit the RAWS. That program seems to muddy the details. The full resolution Extra-Fine JPEG holds up really well even pixel peeping in the corners. I would have no problem printing this image large.
There is a crop on the image, and resized for posting on FM otherwise it is the standard Profile from the a1.
So far I have been posting Landscape images. But this is an all around lens so I think discussing how it handles in low light, fast action, unexpected situations may also be valuable to those considering this lens.
Just such an event happened this evening while out shooting. Rather than duplicate post, I will just link to the whole story and the sample images. Let's just say that the lens performed perfectly. Fast focus, perfect tracking, it did everything right, producing sharp, excellent IQ images. I am so glad I had it on my camera at that moment instead of one for my primes.
When reading the EXIF data, notice that during this whole fast action sequence I am constantly adjusting the zoom focal length to keep reasonable composition of the fox in the image. The lens handled this very difficult use case perfectly, not missing focus in a single frame.
Let's just say, my mind is now made up. I am keeping this lens.
However if I could only have one the 28-200 is hard to beat!
