Will Tamron set the bar for a budget wildlife lens?

[coastalconn]

Coastalconn you'd be the best early adopter of the lens that I could hope for LOL. Can't wait to hear your take on the lens especially on a D300. Heck, I fly into New Haven on a regular basis and usually have 6 hours to kill before we leave. I'll bring my own D300 and rent a car and hop on 95 to come try it out myself (I'll wash my hands first)!

What the heck do you fly into New Haven for? I'm only about 45 minutes "north" on 95..

 

[CaptainNapalm]

In my personal opinion, people complaining about lens size and weight are a joke. If I'm going somewhere where I need to image quality increase from my iPhone's camera to my DSLR, I don't care if I have to lug around a 10 pound lens or two as long as my images are of the utmost perfect quality. Granted, I'm young and in good shape so I don't have issues carrying stuff all day. Still, I wish manufacturers would keep the weight savings stuff to the consumer lenses and just let the pro lenses be god awful heavy if it means better image quality, and many of my "tog" friends agree with me in this area.

That was off-topic, but now on topic: this new lens does look very nice. I've always been a fan of Sigma's nicer lenses, they are great price/performance, especially used, and they offer some lenses that nobody else does. Tamron had some pretty awesome lenses before, such as the 28-105 f/2.8... I look forward to these third party manufacturers continuing to build high quality glass as it'll either force camera-brand lenses to come down in price or go up in quality... always good for us (consumers).

150-600... wow and f/6.3 while not great is still very respectable at that kind of length. If the quality is even half decent this could be great, though I'm not sure quite what market they're shooting for.

I'm relatively young and in shape and I damn care if I'm lugging around a 20 pound DSLR bag for the day, even if getting utmost best image quality is important. I hope you're kidding, most people's issues with full frame DSLR's and long range zooms is the weight. I can't remember how many threads I read here and everywhere else where people are just itching on finding ways on reducing the weight of their gear, no matter what the circumstances.

 

[rhodeislandhntr]

coastal, sent you a PM.

 

[18.percent.gary]

Coastalconn you'd be the best early adopter of the lens that I could hope for LOL. Can't wait to hear your take on the lens especially on a D300. Heck, I fly into New Haven on a regular basis and usually have 6 hours to kill before we leave. I'll bring my own D300 and rent a car and hop on 95 to come try it out myself (I'll wash my hands first)!

What the heck do you fly into New Haven for? I'm only about 45 minutes "north" on 95..

I just drive the plane. The company i fly for owns United States Surgical Corp in North Haven and we come down from Portsmouth NH at least a couple times a month.

LOL 95 "North" in CT always gave me a chuckle... kind of like "down east" Maine.

 

[j-digg]

I'm very much interested in this thing. Hopefully we see a lot of "real world" photos from Japan, when it releases there in 2 days.

 

[coastalconn]

Coastalconn you'd be the best early adopter of the lens that I could hope for LOL. Can't wait to hear your take on the lens especially on a D300. Heck, I fly into New Haven on a regular basis and usually have 6 hours to kill before we leave. I'll bring my own D300 and rent a car and hop on 95 to come try it out myself (I'll wash my hands first)!

What the heck do you fly into New Haven for? I'm only about 45 minutes "north" on 95..

I just drive the plane. The company i fly for owns United States Surgical Corp in North Haven and we come down from Portsmouth NH at least a couple times a month.

LOL 95 "North" in CT always gave me a chuckle... kind of like "down east" Maine.

Yup "North" on 95 actually means due East.. hammonassett SP is in Madison about halfway between.. sundays/mondays im generally available..

I'm pretty excited by this lens as well.. I told Tamron they should sponser me, but they just ignored my message, lol.

 

[j-digg]

If anyone is interested in DLing the full sized TIF files you can check them out here:

Tamron SP 150-600mm F5-6.3 Di VC USD ( A011)

I've checked out a few, wide open and @ f/9 and /11 It looks good enough for me for sure.

 

[coastalconn]

If anyone is interested in DLing the full sized TIF files you can check them out here:

Tamron SP 150-600mm F5-6.3 Di VC USD ( A011)

I've checked out a few, wide open and @ f/9 and /11 It looks good enough for me for sure.

Its been available in Japan for 24 hours, I'm surprised there are no reviews or images from photographers other than the samples... hmmm

 

[robbins.photo]

If anyone is interested in DLing the full sized TIF files you can check them out here:

Tamron SP 150-600mm F5-6.3 Di VC USD ( A011)

I've checked out a few, wide open and @ f/9 and /11 It looks good enough for me for sure.

Its been available in Japan for 24 hours, I'm surprised there are no reviews or images from photographers other than the samples... hmmm

Ya.. what gives. They've had a whole day already. Slackers.

 

[Derrel]

the e-Band...looks like they've developed their own version of Nikon's groundbreaking nano-coating!

 

[ruifo]

Price:
USD $1,069.00
Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon

 

[480sparky40 39]

If anyone is interested in DLing the full sized TIF files you can check them out here:

Tamron SP 150-600mm F5-6.3 Di VC USD ( A011)

I've checked out a few, wide open and @ f/9 and /11 It looks good enough for me for sure.

They must be gone... I just get a blank page.

 

[coastalconn]

If anyone is interested in DLing the full sized TIF files you can check them out here:

Tamron SP 150-600mm F5-6.3 Di VC USD ( A011)

I've checked out a few, wide open and @ f/9 and /11 It looks good enough for me for sure.

They must be gone... I just get a blank page.

I just checked, they are still there... but the files are huge!

 

[j-digg]

I think this is the link I posted in another site, It's in Japanese but if you scroll down there are photos. They make me even more optimistic.


Edit: I suppose I might as well include the link, lol

http://kakaku.com/item/K0000605175/picture/#tab

Oh there are a couple new ones on there today. Time to hop on my PC and check it out.

Bah, beware. Some ( about 5 ) are not from this lens.

 

[coastalconn]

well it is slightly lost in translation, but here is a sort of review... https://translate.google.hu/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=hu&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trinitylumberton.org%2Fcategory29%2F&act=url

It was good enough that I pre-ordered one last night. I think this lens will perform very well on the D7100 with the F8 AF module on the center point. It was interesting to see the focus speed on the 6D. I hope it will be as good as my sigma 120-300 F2.8 with a TC. It could be a very good daylight lens for my Ospreys..