First Copy of Your Tamron 28-75XR Di OK?

Persian-Rice has let me know that there are appearantly some problems with Tamron quality, regarding this lens in particular. I'm just wondering, since we recieve at least one post/week about this lens, how many people have gotten a bad copy?

-daniel

I guess ill vote two, but I will receive my second copy soon, I hope its all good.

Yes, hopefully. What was wrong with the first one? Soft? Back/front focus?

-daniel

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heheheh, I was going to post some TEST pictures of mine after I received it to ask if it was "FUZZY" in the corners.... I had all of my wife's Boyds bears lined up on the counter and I took a full framed picture and boy, if it wasn't SOFT AND FUZZY in the corners!!! I just ran out of time and never got them online before going to work....

My copy was good and I was very happy with it... My 28-300 Di was very good also and I didn't have any problems with that one....

HAhahaha.....funny....​fuzzy in the corners... Good one!

-daniel

Mine can do nice sharp photos, but with F2.8 it's easy to get the focus wrong and do bad photos. This one ain't bad.

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Sure the DOF is short at 2.8, which could mean that you might screw up the focus point, especially if the subject moves, but this does not indicate a defective lens.

-daniel

I know - I was just pointing out that it could be photograper error rather than a faulty lens. It took me some practice to get used to mine.

I wouldn't exactly only put Tamron in the spotlight for quality control problems.

How many threads have you seen here started about the 17-40 L being soft? No one ever seems to point that out in these kind of threads.

Oh yeah, and my Tamron is excellent!

Unfortunartly there is a big differnce between the number of 17-40's sold to the number of Tamron 28-75's for a Canon. We have about 150-200 or so students in one of my Photography theory classes, about 70%-80% own Canon dSlR's. 90% of whome own a 17-40 while only two, including myself that I know of own the Tamron, the rest must be hiding them hah.

I don't really think this poll is going to prove anyhting, our community is rather small and honestly, not that many own a Tamron lens.

I'm not going to argue, but you're missing my point, and that is no matter who it is, they are going to put out a rotton egg every once in a while.

Canon is a great company and I will always stick with them, but they too have put out a "problematic" product... the 20D. So has Nikon, the D100. So has Minolta, the whole line!

Persian.... you voted in this pole. Then, 10 posts later, when you are still the only one who has voted #2, you say that this pole isn't going to prove anything? I don't understand that. You said to me in another thread that you would be rich if you had a nickel for every time you read about people getting a bad copy of the 28-75 and you told me that I must not do much research because I disagreed with you.

So, I'm not sure what this pole is going to prove...I doubt that it will "prove" anything...What it is suggesting (so far) anyway, is that you are the only one who wasn't completely happy with his first copy of this lens. ....yet, you ordered another one.

Now, I wouldn't be surprised to see more people in the next couple days vote with you, but I seriously doubt that it will be enough people to indicate that Tamron has a quality problem with this lens. I just don't think its fair to make comments like that, which is why I questioned your sources in the other thread. This is certainly not worth arguing about and I know the people that make up this board is a minute portion of the photography population, but it certainly does not support your claim.

I'm not sure what your photography theory class has to do with this. Have you asked all 150 students whether or not they have a 28-75 Tamron lens? ...and whether or not it was defective?

-daniel

Yeah, Persian's post up there really had nothing to do with the question at hand. The question wasn't "figure out the ratio of lenses sold between companies".

Oh well.

Again you won't get any tangible results from posting a poll here. This community is far too small to get a substantial number of feedback to make any judgments. The reference to my class was more toward the fact that the 17-40 sells many more copies and in turn will likely have more defective copies. I have not shot with every person in the class but probably with about 70-80 of them, and only one other guy has the Tamron.

Chops, my point is that of course there will be more complaints about the 17-40, there are also probably 75x more of the 17-40 out there then of the 28-75. Before I purchased this lens I even talked about being worried about getting a bad copy, and guess what, I got one. There is no point for me to argue this, I stated that there is a bad reputation before I made my purchase and I proved my own point by unfortunately getting myself a bad copy like many others.

Obviously this is not the only place in the world where photographers spend their time, actually most don't. Go look for reviews of this around the net and you will get at least 20 comments about bad copy out of 60-70 reviews. Maybe it's that people who are dissatisfied who voice their opinions. As it stands, I have seen far too many complaint and still decided to take a shot since it was priced as it was.