The crazy Tamron 150-600mm zoom for Sony is now available for preorder at BHphoto (Click here).
And you get a free QX10 along the Sony A7r at Adorama (Click here). Yep…weird combo 🙂
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This is the lens i want
The performce chart look very inpresive especially for c sensor
Center. Conrast is phenominal.
The price is great…probably kept low with the plastic barrel..todays plastics are as good as metal and in many ways better.
This lens is best suited fpr a mount unless as sony mount lackd vr.
animalsbybarry, please refrain from opining on the engineering properties of materials, and please stop using largely meaningless generalizations.
If the discussion is limited to lens barrels, and the specific plastics and metals are identified precisely, as are the manufacturing techniques used to create the part, then we can all benefit.
But otherwise, as they say on the interwebs, STFU and stick to your sensor resolution whines.
NO but if you would like to STFU that would be OBM…..ok by me.
Wow, was thinking it was going to be more like $1300 or so. Thats an amazing bargain for someone that wants to grab a cheap zoom. Can’t really buy anything else to compare with for that price range. I may have to pick one up to play around with.
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Now this interesting. Let’s see some pics and maybe a few reviews. If the 300-400 range is solid this might be a solid buy. Price is commendable.
Check out
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&nv=1&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.trinitylumberton.org/category29/%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D848&rurl=translate.google.ca&sl=ja&u=http://www.trinitylumberton.org/category29/&usg=ALkJrhjNceEZ2Yn9R-kP0_ykKmUU12dw4g
For a lenthy review
Also check out
http://www.tamron.com.hk/a011/
For 30 downloadable samples.
My second link doesnt work but the first one is really good.
Here is the other link i think this one will work
http://www.tamron.com.hk/A011/
Incedently..my other link is the english tranlation of the one whistler posted plus it has a link to a second page of an actual bird photography shoot.
Sorry..it still doesnt work that good but my first link does.
In these tests the tamron is compared to a few other lenses including some excellent primes and comes out on top of all of them in both sharpness catagories but not in the image stabelezation catagory..but sony will not use tamron stabilization.
It also came out on top in the focussing speed catagory
For a lens of this price thats amazing.
Note on mtf charts that contrast at 30 lp/mm exceeds 90%…
Thats impressive even for a prime.
Even if it turns out that these tests are overly optomistics..at this price this lens is a bargain.
Im excited about it..and everyone knows that if i didnt like it i would definitely say so.
Barry, there is no free lunch, no miracles in the world of engineering and manufacturing.
There is always a trade-off. I don’t know what it is in this case–maybe vastly decreased durability/reliability, I don’t know–but unless there is some significant new technology and/or material involved, or unless they are essentially giving it away for some unknown reason, there will be trade-off.
OTOH, if the thing actually isn’t that good overall but you intend to use it only in its sweet spot, that is terrific–e.g. overall it isn’t great but it is pretty good in the APS-C field, or it isn’t great at all focal lengths but it is great at 600 and that is where you will use it
I guess the question comes down to, would you pay this price for a 600/6.3 prime APS-C lens of similar construction? Evidently the answer is yes!
Tamron claims it is a revelutionary desighn…so mayby they made an inovation.
Based both on tamron claims and the mtf charts this lens is optimized for best performance at 600 mm so the 150mm end is not as good.
The center is tack sharp and even the far corners only lack meridian contrast.
The barrel is plastic..this represents a substantial cost savings….although many will complain its not metal todays thermally stabilized plastics actually ouperform metal in some ways….i dont know how the manucactire it but i would guess that 3d printers would reduce manufacturing cost.
The size and wight is low so that must also represent a cost savings.
I also expect sigma to come out with a new lens to compete..they will have to..but tamron is first.
I have to wonder how people would react to a scaled up 200-800mm version of this lens at $2000., 8lb, 13.5″, and 125mm filter thread?
I like your description but might rephrase it to…
A prime guality 600mm f6.3 for C size cameras that is also usefull as a ff 150-600mm f 5-6.3 zoom.
There are quite a few samples and a very good review at http://www.trinitylumberton.org/category29/
Use google translate to read. The guy compares the lens to various Canon lenses like the 300f 2,8 +2x or 500 + 1.4x etc. The Tamron comes out quite well in his review. The price is really tempting, but I will wait for some real live examples with this lens.
The previous A08 promised a decent balance of contrast, sharpness and clarity on the long end. I’d like to know how exactly it’s new 20 element in 13 groups affects sharpness on the longer end. It’s really the 400-600mm I’m most concerned with.
9 blade circular aperture? Very nice…would like to see some bokeh examples as well.
VC is a nice upgrade, but I’m assuming this will not be on a- mount?
I want to ditch my 500mm reflex for something faster at a reasonable cost, but it needs a decent increase in sharpness from any competitor. Color is good on the reflex, but contrast is not so great. F8 in daylight means I’m shooting at about 1/400’s and while it’s ok, I’d like faster performance for BIF’s. Once the sun tucks itself behind the clouds I’m severely limited. I unfortunately do not have good ISO capabilities. Ghosting is somewhat pronounced as well. Bottom line, as long as it’s sharper at the longer end I’m in for the speed and better AF. I will also wait for some real life photo examples.
The lens is optimized for the long end 600mm
The shor end is ok but the long end seems really good especially on center.
I’m not familiar with the new e-band coating as well. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Im a layman on this but the drawing i saw showed less reflection than the conventional coating.
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Ok, I took a look at Tamron’s website a bit closer. Eband coating is a special type of nano coating- pic comparisions between this and convential coatings look promising. Also, the 600mm wildlife pics are sharp and the bokeh looks quite pleasant. I need to wait for some serious hands on reviews. However, the cost makes this very attractive.
I’d love to wait for the rumored Sigma 400mm 2.8. However, we have got to be talking 3k or more and I’m just not ready for that. It also looks light enough for most purposes IMO. A 500mm F4.5 sigma just doesn’t attract me due to size. This might be a real nice all around performer given the price. It’s on my watch list now.
1000 MRSP, Tamron dont seem to have much trust into the image quality of the lense.
Most likely it will be like the 70-300. Cool features, not fast, medium to bad image quality.
The 70-300 is nearly unusable at 300mm, even at f/11 its horrible. Every 70-200 with 1.4 Teleconverter is better than the 70-300 because 70-300 is just a too large range.
And now people think Tamron can build a perfect 150-600mm Lense and will sell it for 1000$ MRSP 😀 😀 😀
I won’t disagree there- one can hope though. Look at Sigma’s art lenses. Sigma was quite the joke just awhile back but they’re doing a lot to change that. I’ll wait and see.
The lens does seem a little too good to be true but I just preordered mine and will let you guys know what i think.
The predecessor of this lens was a good value. This lens will probably be just as good or better. It won’t compare to top end long glass but really, it doesn’t have to, not for $1100 or less.
Just watch out for AF at the long end. Most cameras do not officially work with apertures smaller than f/5.6 for phase detect AF. A few support going down to f/8 but usually only in the center or a few other AF points. Usually the cameras WILL STILL TRY even though accuracy will be very poor.
So if you end up with this lens, be sure to assess how your camera works with it and don’t conclude automatically that it’s the lens that is problematic. It’s more likely your camera at fault.
Zachery
When i googled tamron 150-600…..and selected images…your avatar came up as one of the inages…no joke..
Just thought you might like to know.
Wow! That’s ridiculously cheap I’d say for a lens like this. I saw sample photos a while back, and if they’re real, this is a must-have.