Tamron 28-75 Portrait Examples

[RbnDave]

Hello Everyone,

About five days ago my brand new Tamron 28-75 XR Di arrived in the mail. I agonized for months over this lens purchase. I could not decide between the Tamron and the Canon 24-70 L. In the end I decided to gamble on the Tamron. I figured if the Tamron sucked I was only out $300.

So far I am very happy with this lens. It is very sharp, reproduces colors well, and has nice bokeh. The only down side I found so far is the build quality. It is all plastic. But for $300 how much can a person expect.

Here are a few portraits I shot today.

These are at f5.6. The compression they use at pbase makes them look a bit soft. Click on the original size for a sharper image.
http://www.pbase.com/image/26778237
http://www.pbase.com/image/26778061
http://www.pbase.com/image/26778677
http://www.pbase.com/image/26778783

Here are two at f2.8. They are a little soft. I can't tell how much of that was caused by me hand holding the camera and my subject moving around. They still look pretty good in my opinion.
http://www.pbase.com/image/26778882
http://www.pbase.com/image/26778749

Dave

[Ferdinand]

Dave, I am currently considering this lens as my walk about lens which is under 100mm. For lens that are longer than that I am seriously thinking about those Ls with IS.

Anyways, back to the Tamron 28-75mm DI XR, would there perhaps be anyway for you to take some samples at f8.0? Also did you attempt to sharpen those photos you took at f2.8 and f5.6? Still the look awesome! Thank you very much sir!

Regards,
Ferdinand

[DaisyHead]

Dave,
I had one Tamron a long time ago, a 28-200, and I sold it. What I din't like was the way the zoom ring was sluggish and not smooth like the Canon. Also, it spins in the opposite direction for zooming as compared to the Canon. Are those things still true today with this 28-75 lens? Thanks.

[Ferdinand]

I believe they are still true. Still something that we can probably ignore if the picture quality is really good and the price of the lens is cheap compare to that of Canon.

Regards,
Ferdinand

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

Here some portraits with my 28-75 Tamron, it's a very very nice lens.

http://www.htforum.nl/fotofrank/albums/userpics/fotoclubsessie2-3.jpg

http://www.htforum.nl/fotofrank/albums/userpics/Frank/portretten/marcel2.jpg

http://www.htforum.nl/fotofrank/albums/userpics/snowy%20Annewiek.jpg

I use the lens alot as walkarround lens, please checkout www.doorhof.nl for more.

Greetings,
Frank

[ssim]

You should be happy with that lens. Went through your gallery and you have some great shots there. Some, IMO, may be too sharp.

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

Please comment, I'm alway's there to learn.

I see myself as a beginner.

Greetings,
Frank

[RbnDave]

Thanks for the comments everyone. Nice photos JAF.

Ferdinand,

I was looking for a walk around lens too. The Tamron should fill this role. I was really set on buying the Canon 24-70 L. I figured most of my photos are going to be taken with my walk around so I should buy the best. In the end, I decided to go with the Tamron instead of the Canon because I thought if I bought the Canon I would end up treating the lens like a baby. I wanted a lens I could take to work (I am a pilot) and not be afraid constantly of it getting smashed or stolen. The Tamron looks like it takes pictures as well as the canon and I can burn through three of them at the same cost as on canon.

Dave

[RbnDave]

PS

To zoom in with the Tamron you turn the ring right. To zoom out turn it left. Is this the same as Canon? The only Canon lens I own is the 50mm f1.8 and it doesn't zoom.

[DaisyHead]

PS

To zoom in with the Tamron you turn the ring right. To zoom out turn it left.

That's what I was afraid of - opposite the Canon's. With a Canon, you turn CCW to go Telephoto and CW to go Wide. I do weddings and need to have all my lenses "speak the same language" - can't be figuring out which way to twist in midstream. :(

[karusel]

Hmmm... Sigma seems to have the same downside... are all third party lens like that? And btw, are Nikkor lens like that too? Well, after playing THIS GAME (http://mirrored.flabber.nl/psycho.pong/), which you definetely MUST try (try to get at least to the 3rd level), I'm not afraid of a 'differend' lens... :wink:

[Ferdinand]

Dave,

Thanks, you definitely have a good point there.

Regards,
Ferdinand

[DaisyHead]

Frank,
I like your portraits and have a question. How did you import your signature onto the print - it looks very nice and crisp? Did you scan it? Can you tell how you did it? Thanks.

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

I scanned a rather big signature and deleted everything except the lines.
I can now import that in PS.

Very simple to be honest :D.

Greetings,
Frank

[BigRed450]

In PS you can also turn your signature into a brush, then you can easily adjust the size and color.

http://users.air.on.ca/cbjaps/jtphotographic/images/trevor_2003-0820.jpg

[Malaxos1]

I have this lens and love it. I have taken a ton of portraits with it and the results are really good, sharp as a tack. I just recently used the lens for it's first wedding and it performed extremely well. I wish I knew how to post photos here or I would post at least one...Dean

[karusel]

Malaxos: first you need to upload the photo to a server, like your webspace, via ftp client, then when you want us to see it, post a reply click Img button above, paste the link to your photo, click Img button again and you're done.

[kraterz]

Hmmm... Sigma seems to have the same downside... are all third party lens like that? And btw, are Nikkor lens like that too?
Well, Nikon does everything backwards, starting from the lens mounting / unmounting. On my olympus OM bodies and Canons, I turn the lens clockwise to mount. It's CCW on Nikons.