juicer wrote:
I like Dustin Abbott’s reviews but he usually compares to more than one lens. I wish he had compared the Tamron to the Sony 24-105 or any lens besides one with relatively poor image quality (24-240).
...vs. the 28-75mm would be useful... very different lenses... but a useful comparison, since so many are thinking about trading it for this lens; or, for people that don't have the 28-75mm already but are considering the two.
I feel exactly the same way. Almost everyone expected it to be better than the 24-240. The real question was how does it compare to the 24-105 or other zooms.
juicer wrote:
I like Dustin Abbott’s reviews but he usually compares to more than one lens. I wish he had compared the Tamron to the Sony 24-105 or any lens besides one with relatively poor image quality (24-240).
I received my Tamron lens around 7pm Los Angeles time. It was starting to get dim, but I did take a few snaps. At 28mm 2.8, the fast aperture and close-up focus comes in handy. Great for detail shots and close-up food snaps. At 200mm it seems sharp enough, but I noticed you really need to keep fast shutter speeds or rely on good hand holding technique. I don't find Sony 5-axis IBIS nearly as good as Olympus 5-axis IBIS, nor as solid as lens based stabilization at longer focal lengths. The lens is fairly lightweight and around the same size as my Samyang 35mm 1.4 FE lens (though the Sam 35mm is much heavier). I think this lens will pair up perfectly with my Samyang 18mm 2.8 and 45mm 1.8 as the ultimate travel trio. It was too late to take any worthwhile photos, but I'll bring it through it's paces tomorrow.
I think this lens will have to be shot differently depending on the subject manner. As a walk-around 28mm 2.8, aperture priority will be perfect. As an event run-n-gun lens, I think shooting it on shutter priority and setting a high shutter speed is the best way to use it.
Jonathan F wrote:
At 200mm it seems sharp enough, but I noticed you really need to keep fast shutter speeds or rely on good hand holding technique. I don't find Sony 5-axis IBIS nearly as good as Olympus 5-axis IBIS, nor as solid as lens based stabilization at longer focal lengths.
As an event run-n-gun lens, I think shooting it on shutter priority and setting a high shutter speed is the best way to use it.
Or leave it in aperture priority and use auto ISO minimum SS set to 1/200 or something like that. Or you could set auto ISO minimum SS to "fast" to double reciprocal rule fir SS or "faster" to quadruple reciprocal rule for SS. You must set the upper limit of your Auto ISO high enough to achieve the chosen auto ISO minimum shutter speed, though. If you are asking for 1/2000 auto ISO min SS But you are shooting at f4 in a dim room with your auto iso range from 100-1600 the camera won't follow your auto ISO minimum SS until you jack up your auto ISO Upper limit to 6400 or whatever is necessary to still expose properly (obviously you could increase aperture or add light up to a point too, but ultimately it's your auto ISO range tgat allows you to achieve your auto ISO Min SS)
Luballs wrote:
Or leave it in aperture priority and use auto ISO minimum SS set to 1/200 or something like that. Or you could set auto ISO minimum SS to "fast" to double reciprocal rule fir SS or "faster" to quadruple reciprocal rule for SS. You must set the upper limit of your Auto ISO high enough to achieve the chosen auto ISO minimum shutter speed, though. If you are asking for 1/2000 auto ISO min SS But you are shooting at f4 in a dim room with your auto iso range from 100-1600 the camera won't follow your auto ISO minimum SS until you jack up your auto ISO Upper limit to 6400 or whatever is necessary to still expose properly (obviously you could increase aperture or add light up to a point too, but ultimately it's your auto ISO range tgat allows you to achieve your auto ISO Min SS)...Show more →
I also shoot Nikon and to be honest I prefer Nikon's implementation of auto-ISO better than Sony. I feel Sony is more apt to bump the ISO higher than necessary, while Nikon will try to keep ISO as low as possible. I've shot both brands side-by-side, so I tend to prefer S mode for Sony if I'm shooting subject matter that's shutter speed sensitive.
This looks like the perfect walkabout lens to me. I think I will be getting one in the September/October area. With the Tokina 20mm most of my nature photography use cases are covered, and otherwise I mostly have the 50/1.4 Planar stuck to my camera.
I really don't "need" this lens. But the images and sharpness I'm seeing here are impressive for super zoom. I could see times when I just carry this and the 20mm. Hmmmm...
If anyone is interested I did a quick 200mm comparison on talkemount.com between the Tamron 28-200mm, Sony 70-200mm f/4 and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II (on a D750). Optically I find the Sony 70-200mm f/4 FE lens to perform better at the long end and to have better stabilization, but the Tamron holds it's own at it's price point and is quite decent for it's intended purpose.
Not a good photo, or even an example of good IQ, but they demonstrate how well the lens works in AFC, while holding one-handed, leaning backwards (swaying a bit as well), nearly shooting into the sun, and in combo with the Sony IBIS.
Looks like a hawk made off with one of the pair of crow's offspring (or lunch), and they were harrying it for several minutes as the hawk gradually widened it's circle, and they finally left it alone.
Shot at 200mm, the birds were little more than winged blobs to the naked eye.
Original posted to show the relative difference from the crop.
Grrr... broke my wife’s bling bling martini glass. Seemed like a good chance for a snapshot. 55mm f4 jpeg. Personally I think this is going to be a great travel lens.
I'm very happy with this lens for hiking. I find it to be really quite sharp across the range, and for landscapes any barrel distortion isn't terribly relevant (I did notice some in a test shot). There's a bit of CA but really not much and easily corrected. This is going to be my go to zoom for hiking for sure (I'll likely sell my 24-105/4).
