Image courtesy: DSLRmagazine
A very exciting new lens is the 15-30mm f/2.8 DI VC USD lens. And I have been told by trusted sources this lens is definitely coming as A-mount too. The Spanish DSLRmagazine is the first website to report a hands-on of the prototype. This is what they write:
– Is less bigger than it looks on the official pictures
– The Tamron is the first of a new kind of lenses with much more elegant design and new high optical performance
– The Tamron feels of very high quality and solid in your hand. Definitely better than any other Tamron lens made in the past
– The hood can be retracted
– Tamron goal was to deliver a lens of higher quality than those of Canon and Nikon.
Reminder: Press release of the new Tamron lens can be read here on SAR.
Here are imaes from DSLRmagazine and ePhotozine. Click on them to enlarge the image size:
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Please let me be first. Where’s that Panfried or Panacoppoff whatever his nme is? Great lens by the way
No filters 🙁
Be positive. It is the A Mount Everest of Cameras.
“less bigger” = “smaller than” =”not as big as”?
I think this is an understated release.
I don’t particularly find this lens to be interesting for me but rather the possible sibling lens, 30-70 f2.8 or f2?
Those focal lengths are more to my liking and I think it would be an outstanding proposition from Tamron that truly differentiates itself from the rest of the 12-24, 16-35, 24-70 and so on. Especially if it’s smaller than your run of the mill zoom even if it doesn’t have the more varied focal lengths.
Who knows, maybe this could be the first wide zoom with outstanding bokeh as well…
Tamron already do in the general market (not so much for Sony) by being the only ones to offer IS in a FF mid range f2.8 zoom.
Make all A lenses with VC or i won’t buy anything from you Tamron.
Maybe they have been listening too much to Ken Rockbrain: “Tamron’s VC system jumps as it locks and unlocks, so if you don’t wait a
moment with your finger half on the shutter for it to settle, it will
blur your photo in the process of settling!”
are you dumb, why you need VC in A-mount? all a-mount cameras have sensor stabilization…
Firstly – Most of in lens stabilization works better than the Sony in body stabilization
Second – They are always same prices ! look at canon they have some lenses with IS and without and the price gap between them is quite big
Third – Sony E – mount dosen`t have stabilization and with adapter you can use stabilized lens
Lastly – Sigma is making lenses with stabilization for Sony A-mount and this works fine.
Spot on, Mike. I FULLY agree with you, especially about the E-Mount.
Both Sigma and Tamron are pulling a fast one by removing the VC/OS from the lenses for A-Mount.
You can see why they do it, though. The economies of scale are far less with A-mount compared to Canon/Nikon. Sigma and Tamron need to cut their costs somewhere, and removing VC/OS is the obvious answer.
I have heard that they end up leaving it in but disable it (rather than producing a lens unique to Sony without it).
“They” don’t want people comparing the VC vs IBIS.
Sony has 11% share hold in Tamron.
Sigma has no such relation, so they keep the OS in a-mount.
Agree.
1, My Tamron 70-200 has no VC, but it charge me the same price.
2, Many review show that Sony has not improve their IBIS for a long time. The VC/OS in new lens are much better than Sony IBIS, especially for tele-lens.
3,In-lens OS can stabilize image that reach the focus module.
A shaky image at the focus module does affect AF performance, especially on tele-lens.
4,I love IBIS, because it give stabilization to all lens,
but I can always turn it off if I found that the In-lens OS is better.
here you can see it in an italian Video from photokina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sidRm2asCJg
No filter so this lens is useless compared to the new sigma 14-24mm (which has IS as well).
Useless to you. I couldn’t give a t0ss about filters.
And that’s rumored to only be f/4. This tammy for me.
There is one problem with the Sigma 14-24mm: It does not exist!
Tamron finally put some effort on the naming and looks of their lenses so they no longer look like some gold-decked gangsta pimp 😉 Now, why don’t they leave VC in A-mount version like Sigma did with 70-200 so that it aids focusing with shutter half-pressed (not that it matters for 15-30, but could be great with 24-70 or longer).
A77-II has that already with any lens.
But wait… I don’t have A77-II nor desire one. I have A99 which doesn’t.
So, A99-II with the same stuff may achive this, not necessarily VC from Tamron.
It may or may not. At this moment one can’t even tell if there will be A99-II. And what other specs will make it worth buying or not. At this moment I see this as a feature worth having in a lens, and Sigma proved it’s possible.
If there’s no A99-II, from Tamron’s perspective it would be logitcal to cancel all A-Mount lenses, not make them VC-capable.
Their old lenses were ugly as sin. Looks like they’ve pretty much just copied Sigma’s new Global Vision lenses though.
What is the point of an 15-30 f2.8? One would think with a focal range that limited and aperture that large, an old prime would do 99% of the job for much less money and size.
I can’t think of a single 15, 16, or 17mm prime at f/2.8 that’s “much less money” and has good IQ.
Not sure if I’m a fan of the focal length range versus either 16-35 or 12-24. For the former, the one millimeter wider you gain you lose the 35mm focal length. When out shooting with a 16-35, you can zoom in all the way for a portrait for less fattening distortion when there is no time to swap lenses or not shooting with 2 bodies. The 14-24 gets you super wide and Nikon managed to make theirs prime quality. If Tamron has managed to be on par with Nikon, it should be a winner though.
I want this for e-mount! 😉
What’s Tamron’s obsession with eliminating the filter mounts? Especially on wide-angle lenses, this makes no sense at all. What about CPL or ND filters? Don’t they think people use these?
A CPL on an ultrawide? If you are shooting a lot of sky, that can lead to some very bad times.
“The hood can be retracted”… huh? How and why?
Will the Alpha models focus same direction as Alpha, or Nikon/Pentax direction as shown?
My Sigma 15-30 was one of the sharpest wide angles I’ve ever used. Far better than Sig or Tam 14mm. I’m very interested in this new Tamron teamed with their entire set of VC.
This lens was only available in a closed showcase for visitors.
It is very massive, in my eyes much bigger as e.g. the SAL1635ZA.
According to the guy at the stand the Sony A mount version will come without VC.
On one hand this lens might be attractive to many people. But serious landscape photographers will probably don’t chose because of missing filter support.
For me personally unbelievable creating an uwa lens without filter support.
It’s not uncommon for fast ultra wide lenses to lack filter support.
The Nikon 14-24 for example also lacks (official) filter support, although for that lens there is a rather bulky 3rd party add-on that does provide it.
Reason being: with such a wide angle and a front element that bulbs out that much a filter thread would cause vignetting.
Note how the pedal hood recesses almost completely at the four corners.