Girlfiend bought me a Tamron 28-75!!! PICTURES INSIDE!!!

I too got a Tamron 28-75 2.8 last week. We have taken several pictures and love the quality from it. Glad to see you are going to enjoy it.

I have the Tamron, too, and absolutely love it's sharpness. Like Solinger, though, I learned with a 50mm prime lens which I used almost exclusively when I shot film. I'm slowly building my collection of primes, as I prefer them for both sports and portraiture. The 200L should be finding it's way to my house sometime next week!

liza, have you noticed your lens to be sharp at 2.8 at all focal lengths....

Or does it really depending on what you are shooting?

Nice lens. Nine color

But why does the exif show f4 ?

whoops? maby it is f/4

I thought i shot it on 2.8 since i was testing sharpness.. but i could be wrong.. Thank for the correction!!!

StealthLude, it took me a while to get "used" to my Tamron 28-75 when using it wide open, or at f4. Depth of field can be quite shallow and your subject has only got to move a little bit to throw focus off. I hate to think how long it takes to master an f1.4 lens but maybe one day I'll enjoy finding out. The 70-200 f4L matches nicely with the Tamron - same 67mm filter, both excellent quality, reasonably compact. You miss out totally on wide angle though. There's always the kit lens at 18mm or I dished out for a Tokina 12-24. Enjoy taking lots of beautiful shots of your girlfirend when you next catch up.

abat,

Thank so much for your reply!!! Ill give more practice with my tamron before jumping to any conclusions. I just want to make sure its on calibration and working properly. I hear a lot of stuff about bad copies. So i just wanted to make sure...

I will be getting a 70-200 soon, but i already have a 10-22 EF-S to cover my wide end. Along with a 50mm 1.8 lens.

I just purchased a batter grip and the kenko extension tubes for macro work. I didnt get the 100mm macro because i wanted to buy a 580ex flash to use as a master to my 420ex (which i will now use as a slave)... Has anyone had any experience with ETTL Wireless setups? I REALLY dont want to by large strobes and want to stay portable and light... I shoot for hobby and like being able to do creating shooting with small strobes.

Nice Radio!

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This Tamron is a very good Lens ... enjoy it.

I've not really noticed. It looks pretty sharp to me all the time.