Bought a Tamron 70-300 mm lens for canon from Babas, Thiruvananthapuram. The model is Tamron AF 70 - 300 mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro and came with 2 year warranty.
It has auto/manual focus button and a macro toggle button which if enabled locks the focal length to higher side i.e from 180-300 mm, not very useful but still an addition. Build and finish is excellent with good grips, nice focus ring and nice zoom ring, in fact I liked the build more than that of kit lens(canon 18-55 mm). The best thing is the focus ring which is perfect for manual focusing! It came with a lens hood which is also great and its installation is also spot on, it connects to it firmly.
It's the basic, cheapest telephoto zoom lens available which is priced under 10k. Mine is the canon compatible lens but it is available for Nikon dslr's too. The best part of telephoto lenses are that we can take closeup photos of distant objects be it a bird in a tree, butterfly in a flower, ducklings in pond or wildlife. This lens does the job pretty well, the images came out have good details and are acceptably sharp. It doesn't have image stabilization but considering it's price it is nothing to complain about. So at high focal lengths( greater than 150 mm) it urges us to go for higher shutter speeds in order to get sharp, unshaky photos. Maximum aperture is f/4-5.6 and minimum is f/32 which is decent.
Portraits and candid shots captured at higher focal lengths are a bliss, the bokeh are too good, isolates the subject from the background perfectly. But at the maximum focal length that is at 300 mm the images are sharp if captured at greater shutter speeds above 1/500 s which becomes trickier when the available light become low! Thus more often we need to crank the ISO to high values to compensate the high shutter speeds in low lit conditions. But again considering the price range it delivers good quality output and good build quality as well.
I'm pretty satisfied with its performance and recommends it to beginners and amateurs like me.
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| Tamron AF 70 - 300 mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro |
It has auto/manual focus button and a macro toggle button which if enabled locks the focal length to higher side i.e from 180-300 mm, not very useful but still an addition. Build and finish is excellent with good grips, nice focus ring and nice zoom ring, in fact I liked the build more than that of kit lens(canon 18-55 mm). The best thing is the focus ring which is perfect for manual focusing! It came with a lens hood which is also great and its installation is also spot on, it connects to it firmly.
It's the basic, cheapest telephoto zoom lens available which is priced under 10k. Mine is the canon compatible lens but it is available for Nikon dslr's too. The best part of telephoto lenses are that we can take closeup photos of distant objects be it a bird in a tree, butterfly in a flower, ducklings in pond or wildlife. This lens does the job pretty well, the images came out have good details and are acceptably sharp. It doesn't have image stabilization but considering it's price it is nothing to complain about. So at high focal lengths( greater than 150 mm) it urges us to go for higher shutter speeds in order to get sharp, unshaky photos. Maximum aperture is f/4-5.6 and minimum is f/32 which is decent.
Portraits and candid shots captured at higher focal lengths are a bliss, the bokeh are too good, isolates the subject from the background perfectly. But at the maximum focal length that is at 300 mm the images are sharp if captured at greater shutter speeds above 1/500 s which becomes trickier when the available light become low! Thus more often we need to crank the ISO to high values to compensate the high shutter speeds in low lit conditions. But again considering the price range it delivers good quality output and good build quality as well.
I'm pretty satisfied with its performance and recommends it to beginners and amateurs like me.
