Monday, November 19, 2012

Tamron 24-70 2.8 sample photos








24mm, F/4, 1/200s

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For a couple of months I have been able to use a second copy of Tamron 24-70/2.8 and while I was extremely happy with the first one (used at July), the second one turned to be even slightly better - I'm sure this can of course be psychological effect, since I never had a chance to compare these two side by side.

I'm quite delighted with the image quality though - and currently cannot think about any reason why I would like to "upgrade" from such a great lens.

Long story short, here come a couple of sample images. Nice discussion available at the lens ad dpreview web site - click here.

Using the lens for portrait is definitely enjoyable at superb sharpness and smooth bokeh at 70/2.8, so let's start with some portrait images first.




70mm, F/2.8, 1/1000s




70mm, F/3.5, 1/125s (notice the bokeh - a bit busy because of high contrast at bg, but very well handled)




70mm, F/5, 1/250s (bokeh - as the bg is darker and less contrasty, the bokeh is rendered with excellence again)





70mm, F/5, 1/125s (focus quite far away - lens was able to change the focus between dancers and far background nicely)




42mm, F/7.1, 1/25s (shot without Vibration Control (VC) - as the lens is heavy, therefore quite stable, never missed the VC at daylight)




58mm, F/4, 1/100s (another example of non 24 or 70mm shot (so 58mm this time), shot through bookshop glass)




24mm, F/7.1, 1/200s (notice the lens flares at the image at lower left and center right)




24mm, F/9, 1/320 (the "sweet spot" of the lens at widest angle seems to be (**surprise, surprise :) somewhere between F/7.1-11)




24mm, F/8, 1/320 (the lens rendered the roof stones so sharp that it is almost hurts the eyes at downsized image (bicubic standard interpolation), without any extra sharpness added).




61mm, F/5, 1/200s (gradual filter was used for the sky)




24mm, F/11, 13.00s (from a tripod, with gradual filter)




70mm, F/7.1, 1/20 (manual focus (closest) - bokeh smooth despite small aperture)




61mm, F/8, 1/400 (manual focus (closest) - again, bg is superb despite small aperture (conditions of the subject and background were literally the same)




70mm, F/6.3, 1/400 (some chromatic aberration at contrasty areas - top and down right corner)




24mm, F/16, 3.20s




70mm, F/7.1, 1/400s (what could be a better shot to end this long post, than a sunset? ;))

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanx! Nice photos! :) /Fred

Unknown said...

Very good job