Tamron lens

gsgary · July 28, 2005

Does any of you know anything about the Tamron AF 28-300 xr di ld aspherical macro if f3.5-6.3 would it be any good for sport or would it be a waste of money
Regards
Gary

mercphoto · July 28, 2005

gsgary wrote:

Does any of you know anything about the Tamron AF 28-300 xr di ld aspherical macro if f3.5-6.3 would it be any good for sport or would it be a waste of money

I don't know particularly. But bear in mind on most cameras a f/6.3 lens will not auto-focus. Canon 1-series will, but if you own a 1-series I doubt you'd be looking at that lens. The type of sport in particular will be a factor as well. For indoor sports, or outdoor sports at less-than-full-sun, that lens is too slow. Your shutter speeds will not be high enough. For motor sports that will usually not be an issue, but the speed of the focus motor will be. For soccer in bright sun it will probably work just fine.

gsgary · July 28, 2005

I will have to save up for the Sigma 70-200 F2.8

mercphoto wrote:

I don't know particularly. But bear in mind on most cameras a f/6.3 lens will not auto-focus. Canon 1-series will, but if you own a 1-series I doubt you'd be looking at that lens. The type of sport in particular will be a factor as well. For indoor sports, or outdoor sports at less-than-full-sun, that lens is too slow. Your shutter speeds will not be high enough. For motor sports that will usually not be an issue, but the speed of the focus motor will be. For soccer in bright sun it will probably work just fine.

Harryb · July 28, 2005

gsgary wrote:

Does any of you know anything about the Tamron AF 28-300 xr di ld aspherical macro if f3.5-6.3 would it be any good for sport or would it be a waste of money
Regards
Gary

I had the earlier version of that lens for awhile. Its a good all purpose lens when you have bright light. For the price its a good value. There are better lenses out there but they cost much more $. Here's a pic from the older version at 300mm.

gsgary · July 28, 2005

Thanks Harry
Was that on manual focus,looks like i will have to spend a bit more that means less bits for my motorbikes:cry

Harryb wrote:

I had the earlier version of that lens for awhile. Its a good all purpose lens when you have bright light. For the price its a good value. There are better lenses out there but they cost much more $. Here's a pic from the older version at 300mm.

Harryb · July 28, 2005

That was AF. The lens is sharper at 200mm.

davev · July 28, 2005

I had this lens for a couple of weeks, then i got caught up in the canon triple
rebates and returned it. It AF's fine, but it does like light. If the scene was a
bit dark, it would start to hunt. To me it felt like a solid lens.

If you're going to try to use it for sports, it may not be the best choice.

I have a gallery here: http://www.pbase.com/davev/fall_colors
This gallery has more than 12000 hits. I think a lot of folks are interested
in this lens.

One more thing, I had bought this lens 2 days after I bought my D Reb 300.
I think if I had it now, I could do better than I did back then.

Hope this helps

A taste.

gtc · July 28, 2005

18-200mm=28-300mm with aps-c sensor crop factor
the new 18-200 version for aps-c sized sensors gives you 300mm due to crop factor and is on my list of affordable and practical glass to buy.

its $700 australian dollar$ here and that perfectly fits my maximum monthly purchase budget that I have allocated.

it looks like a good ,light- weight ,walk around zoom.they call it a macro too..

its not L glass but should do the job until you wish to upgrade.

here is a description:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0502/05022105tamron_18-200mm.asp

davev · July 28, 2005

gtc wrote:

the new 18-200 version for aps-c sized sensors gives you 300mm due to crop factor and is on my list of affordable and practical glass to buy.

its $700 australian dollar$ here and that perfectly fits my maximum monthly purchase budget that I have allocated.

it looks like a good ,light- weight ,walk around zoom.they call it a macro too..

its not L glass but should do the job until you wish to upgrade.

here is a description:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0502/05022105tamron_18-200mm.asp

Hey Greg. I got that lens now.

A gallery of pictures are here: http://www.pbase.com/davev/18200

I think about the first 10 pics are straight from the camera.

A taste.

gsgary · July 29, 2005

Thanks for all the replies i am going to go for the Sigma 70-200 2.8 just missed one for £160 at a local shop or Canon 70-200 f4 L

Gary

Chase · August 2, 2005

@ f6.3 it will still autofocus on a 300d for sure.

I have that exact combination.
Decent, lense, nothing special except for being light, cheap, and flexible.

mercphoto · August 2, 2005

Chase wrote:

@ f6.3 it will still autofocus on a 300d for sure. I have that exact combination.

Non 1-series Canon's do not auto-focus at anything over f/5.6. A 1-series will auto-focus up to f/8. Are you sure your 300D is auto-focusing on that lens at full-zoom (and hence when the max. aperture will be 6.3, because at full-wide its under 5.6 and will auto-focus)?

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