New Tamron Lens

[zafra52]

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

[MCWB]

The inconvenience however is that you're stuck with an inferior lens at all focal lengths! I hope this new version better than my (1998 version) Tamron 28-300, which quite frankly sucks arse!

[moz]

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

[big pix]

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.......

[!~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~!]

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