The Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 for Sony A-mount will ship from October 30 in Japan. Worldwide shipment will follow soon after. Preorders are up at BHphoto (Click here).
Source: Tamron Japan.
The Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 for Sony A-mount will ship from October 30 in Japan. Worldwide shipment will follow soon after. Preorders are up at BHphoto (Click here).
Source: Tamron Japan.
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wow, second A-mount news of the year! It’s alive! 😛
It’s sad in a way, all the nattering nabobs of negativity will have to find something else to cry about now. And they surely will.
I thought Barry said that third-party manufacturers weren’t making new A-mount lenses?
see he got even less clue of lenses than sensors 😉
Barry has been burning the midnight oil, deeply involved in the development and testing of the Barry (stacked) sensor. Forgive him if he’s not up to date on current events.
It’s a shame Tamron A-mount lenses are always stripped of their stabilization features.
Yet still charging the same price as those which have stabilization!
The stabilization system is still in place, only turned off.
would be great if one could activate it on E-mount bodies without IBIS then 😉
It’s not still in place, gone kaput. But you’re paying for it anyway.
Wouldn’t the optical scheme be different then?
The floating element is stationary, no mechanism (inertial sensor, actuators etc.).
And the missing parts you’re paying for are being used on someone else s lens. Tamron thanks you for your support.
Pardon my ignorance, but is this a yes or a no? 🙂
No, there is not need for the optical scheme to be different. The floating element simply doesn’t move.
So the A-Mount version is smaller/lighter?
Lighter, slightly, smaller, why would it be?
You’re actually paying for the smaller economies of scale with A-mount.
But yes, the motor isn’t there.
Along with the Sigma 35mm this lens, probably the reason why 35mm Zeiss and 24-240 got released for E-Mount first.
It’s hard for Sony to compete with increasingly good offerings from Sigma and Tamron in A-Mount with their lens pricing.
Which is fine, as long as they keep making bodies. I could go for an all Tamron/Sigma set-up.
Would be great to have EF mount
I’m sure it’s available in EF mount (Canon) just not FE (Sony) 😉
It has been available for EF for a while now.
I was kinda hoping it’d be a constant 1.8.
Bastards! They killed VC again!