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New Tamron Lens

Postby zafra52 on Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:41 pm

Possibly you all know about this new Tamron lens soon to be release for Nikon and later for Canon. I am referring to the new AF28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical (IF) MACRO. I guess the advantage of a lense like this is avoiding the inconvinience of having to take with you several lenses and then having to change them risking dust on the sensor.

http://www.tamron.co.jp/en/lineup/a20/vc/index.html
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Postby MCWB on Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:27 pm

The inconvenience however is that you're stuck with an inferior lens at all focal lengths! :P I hope this new version better than my (1998 version) Tamron 28-300, which quite frankly sucks arse! :evil:
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Postby moz on Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:28 pm

Interesting that it matches the Canon lens for focal range but not aperture. Pity it's a really good range for full frame rather than crop cameras, since I can't see most full frame camera owners opting to save $1000 on the lens after laying out $3000+ on the body. Never know, i suppose, maybe they're chasing the film users.

Good to see that they've joined the "stabilised lenses" bandwagon though, hopefully they'll release something useful with that in it. Viz, a fast telephoto zoom or a competitor to the nikon 18-200 so that Canon users can play too. Or maybe I should just bite the bullet and buy a D300, 18-200, 200-400 collection :D
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Postby big pix on Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:54 pm

have a very close look at the Sigma Bigma....... all the sea Eagles on my web site were shot with this lens, along with the water birds.......
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Postby !~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~! on Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:00 pm

sigma's 2.8 still wins in my book...now just gotta find $1200 odd to get it :(
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