Thread: Tamron for nikon

ok fingers crossed

i have just brought a Tamron 28-75 di sojmething something something f2.8

hope its ok

had the chance to buy a 80 to 200 nikkor 2.8 but when i actually got talking to the seller, really really nice guy profesional photographer he reckomended me some other lenses sigma being one of them as he said the lens he had was really to hevy for a camera like D80 as its ultimately a plastic housing and can get damaged on the mount by the weight of the lens...

had some really interesting talks with him actually and he is giveing me photoshop CS2 for free.....which i thought was really lovely of him

so see how this lens goes then i will get a longer zoom lens and and get rid of my others

Originally Posted by dullbird

ok fingers crossed

i have just brought a Tamron 28-75 di sojmething something something f2.8

hope its ok

had the chance to buy a 80 to 200 nikkor 2.8 but when i actually got talking to the seller, really really nice guy profesional photographer he reckomended me some other lenses sigma being one of them as he said the lens he had was really to hevy for a camera like D80 as its ultimately a plastic housing and can get damaged on the mount by the weight of the lens...

had some really interesting talks with him actually and he is giveing me photoshop CS2 for free.....which i thought was really lovely of him

so see how this lens goes then i will get a longer zoom lens and and get rid of my others

Congrats on the new lens. I will be really interested to hear how it preforms, and what you think of it.

Talking with some of the PRO photographers is great. I have one local to me and even though he is Nikon/Mac biased he gives really good advice regardless.

All the best with your new toy

Originally Posted by dullbird

ok fingers crossed

i have just brought a Tamron 28-75 di sojmething something something f2.8

hope its ok

had the chance to buy a 80 to 200 nikkor 2.8 but when i actually got talking to the seller, really really nice guy profesional photographer he reckomended me some other lenses sigma being one of them as he said the lens he had was really to hevy for a camera like D80 as its ultimately a plastic housing and can get damaged on the mount by the weight of the lens...

had some really interesting talks with him actually and he is giveing me photoshop CS2 for free.....which i thought was really lovely of him

so see how this lens goes then i will get a longer zoom lens and and get rid of my others

So how are you liking the lens ? i now thinking about either the tamron 17-50 2.8 or sigma equivalent or even the sigma 17-70 2.8/4 . ! problem i find with the zooms starting at 24/28 is that with the DSLR's crop factor of 1.6 x you lose most of the benefits of a wide angle lower end.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

So how are you liking the lens ? i now thinking about either the tamron 17-50 2.8 or sigma equivalent or even the sigma 17-70 2.8/4 . ! problem i find with the zooms starting at 24/28 is that with the DSLR's crop factor of 1.6 x you lose most of the benefits of a wide angle lower end.

haven't used it as of yet i only received it 2 days ago.....going to get it out later and have a play with it....

just a question it has the dial to change the aperture......it is an I/F lense so it has auto focus but haveing he aperture ring does that mean i can set the aperture with in the camera any more, does it always have to be set manually with this lense?

also loanrangie i'm not too worried about the wide angle if i feel i have lost out with the start of this lense i will just save up and get a lense that covers the lower ranges 11-17 some thing like that


i'm now very much considering after i have tried the lense out getting a sigma 130-400

or 70-200 not sure as of yet.....i will post up a pic with the new lens as soon as i have taken one

Not sure about the aperture bit as canon's never had that where as the nikons did i believe in the early days. It should be auto exposure too so aperture would be set by the camera. I like my current lens but i need a faster and wider one so 17-50 2.8 would be just right.

A lot of those cheaper lenses wont like running wider than f5.6. They will start to misbehave in lower light. The Sima 12-24 f4/5.6 for example that retails for $700 is like this. BUT, above that they are pretty amazing. tamron and Sigma are the leaders in the cheaper lense area.

The more expensive lenses perform better in a wider range of conditions.

I have never bought a brand new lens, always looking in second hand shops and camera stores for bargains. Just bought a Nikon D2X, Nikkor DX 17-55 f2.8, Nikkor 70-200 f2.8, SB 800 Flash - whole lot, $4500. Piccies are unbelievable.

Also keep an eye out for good quality Prime lenses. As the boys have said, For landscape stuff, and non Newsy things (Like what we do) pretty damn fine. I have Niikkor 20mm f4.5, 24 F2.8, 28 f2.8, 50 f1.5, 80-200 f4.5, 300 f4.5. All have been used to great effect. Least Fav is the 80-200. But the rest are Brilliant and a nice way to make pix! I am actually thinking about selling my old kit, with above lenses, an FM and FE with MD12 Motordrives. But they are hard to part with....

Part with it while you can, film stuff is virtually worthless now, i'm lucky that my lenses could still be used on my digiatl otherwise i would have been up for double what i paid.

Originally Posted by dullbird

just a question it has the dial to change the aperture......it is an I/F lense so it has auto focus but haveing he aperture ring does that mean i can set the aperture with in the camera any more, does it always have to be set manually with this lense?

No you just use the camera for aperture as normal.
Are you sure its an aperture ring and not the zoom or focus ring?

IF: usually refers to internal focus

Originally Posted by dullbird

i'm now very much considering after i have tried the lense out getting a sigma 130-400

or 70-200 not sure as of yet.....i will post up a pic with the new lens as soon as i have taken one

Nikon 80-400 is better and the 70-200 Nikon is one of the best lenses around. Check out dpReview.com for a comparison with the Sigma 70-200.