It just seems so quickly after the original, and that didn't have that much wrong with it? (apart from built quality and features). Is this just a quality upgrade all around or did Tamron find some sort of breakthrough?
I think we'll have to wait and see how it performs in reviews. You're right, it's interesting that they came out with it so soon after a relatively popular original. It would be nice to hope for some really impressive performance upgrade somehow... hard to imagine how they could wring much more performance out of the basic concept (a reasonably-sized, reasonably-priced, 3x standard zoom)... they're already very good and the things that hold them back are getting towards being fundamental to the design constraints, surely?... Maybe autofocus speed and reliability? But any improvement is welcome if they can come up with it. Might make for cheaper 2nd-hand copies of the original model, too, for anyone who has been waiting to buy one.
(There's already sort-of a thread covering both these new Tamrons that this discussion might fit better into, but this thread about the 35-150 seems to be the one that has gotten rolling more than the other, so whatever I guess!)
Aug 05, 2021 at 11:55 AM
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