Tamoron 28-300 VC??

Looking for some decent reviews or shots forom this lens, anyone own one? Looking to get it as a replacement travel lens for the 24-105, often I find 105mm not long enough (street portraits and such).

Cheers.

It was just tested/reviewed by Popular Photography magazine. You can read it online here.

Hey cool thanks...

TaMORON. Funny!

Wow, that was a very favorable review. I'm a bit surprised actually.

Me too although not favourable at either end of the zoom concerning vignetting. For 500€ what do i want...

Yeh, Tamoron... :P

I just got this lens yesterday. Deciding between this, Tamron 18-250mm, Sigma 18-200 OS, and Canon 70-300 IS USM.

I decided to take a chance on this new Tamron and the VC. All I have done was a few indoor, low-light shots (ISO 800-1600) last night. I attached two shots from my experiments last night, one a 28mm and one at 300mm. Please realize these were purposely shot in low-light, at IS01600. Also, the exported jpgs from Lightroom you are seeing are at 50% quality setting. the VC was on for both of these shots. I was especially impressed at 300mm how the VC worked (I believe I was at max f/6.3 for this shot). And in the viewfinder (I have a Canon XTi), once the VC locks in 1 sec after the shutter is halfway pressed, all shake (at least noticeable in the viewfinder) ceases. Quite amazing.

Once I get some outdoor time this weekend, hopefully I can post some additional photos in better light, and lower ISOs. My intention for this lens will be my general purpose walkaround/travel/vaca​tion lens, not necessarily indoors (I have a 50mm-f/1.4 prime for that ). But I wanted to push the limits a little just to see...

I will say I am initially very impressed, especially the VC (Vibration Compensation) is amazing. I was taking incredibly steady shots across my room at 300mm. Also, the size is great, I think I will be much happier with this for travel vs., the Canon 70-300mm IS, even if I have to give up a little quality (and that's from only one review I read).

-gandalf44

PS Images were shot RAW on Canon XTi, imported into Lightroom, with no other changes besides the exported jpg size & resolution reduction. Hence why white balance is off....

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Any chance of telling us at which speed these were taken?

Of course, forgot in the original post.

the 28mm was shot at 1/50s, f/4.5, and the 300mm at 1/15, f/6.3. I was in Av mode, set for each focal length to the widest aperture supported, and let the XTi set shutter speed.

Thats not too bad at 300mm then....hmmmm....cheer​s for that.