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The Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III VXD G2 is a standard lens for FF and APS-C, manufactured from 2021. The focus is done by Linear Motor, it does not have image stabilization. The average price, when it has been added to the JuzaPhoto database, is 784 €;
29 users have given it an average vote of 9.6 out of 10.
MOUNT
This lens is available with the following mounts:
Nikon Z: this lens is compatible with mirrorless fullframe and APS-C Nikon Z.
Sony E: this lens is compatible with mirrorless fullframe and APS-C Sony.
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The following opinions have been automatically translated with Google Translate.
Pros:Lightweight, well built, very responsive and precise AF, tropicalized, excellent color rendering, minimum focusing distance, very sharp already at f2.8.
Cons:Honestly I don't see any, especially for its price but above all for the performance it offers!
Opinion:I've never been a fan of third-party lenses, zoom or fixed, I've always preferred to spend a few euros more but buy native lenses for my cameras. I bought this zoom mostly out of curiosity but above all because in many reviews on the web, it is almost praised for its optical qualities, moreover at a cost accessible to many. As soon as it was installed on my Sony A7 Mark V 61 mpx I immediately thought "he doesn't have it, he will never be able to hold all these mpx!" ...... surprise! I was really stunned and I even exclaimed in a colorful way so the images are beautiful and sharp already at f2.8, incredible! Beyond the really remarkable detail not to mention the very fine and creamy Bokeh, even the colors that this lens returns are fantastic, warm and with that look very similar to the photographic films of the past, so much so that already the Raw files often do not even need interventions, they are already beautiful like this! "Obviously, you still have to get off to a good start with the settings in the car." Then, it has a really surprising focus at the minimum distance, especially at 28mm, where you almost touch the front lens so close you can get to the subject, this also allows excellent macros "see photos on my profile". The lens itself is well built, the materials are not "Premium" but not poor either, the feeling of solidity is perceived and there are no games whatsoever between the moving parts. The dials rotate smoothly, perhaps a little too soft that of the manual focus. The AF is very responsive and extremely accurate, I have never encountered any particular difficulties. Bought new on Amazon for just over €780.00, I have nothing to complain about and I'm fully satisfied. I highly recommend it!
Opinion:Sold for manifest stupidity and then bought back. I use it for sports photos on APS-C and it has a perfect rendering that there. Comfortable, perfect at any length and aperture, yet beautiful to look at. I just can't find fault with it. It also has a programmable button and a USB-C socket to be able to customize some functions via app. I've never tried a GM, but how much better it can be, I don't know.
Pros:excellent sharpness even at full aperture - fast and precise autofocus - excellent construction in relation to the price
Cons:for 850 euros I did not find any
Opinion:Before buying this Tamron 28-75 second version I used for a long time the 24-105 f4 Sony, amazing lens and very versatile thanks to stabilization. Unfortunately the f/4 aperture indoors was sometimes not optimal and, hoping for a good quality at full aperture, I opted to buy this lens. On a constructive level it seems well made and the rings are fluid and silent. It has a button and a slider with two programmable modes (via software as it has a USBC socket directly on the body) that allow various configurations. At an optical level it turned out to be beyond the most optimistic expectations as at full aperture at f2.8 it is sharper (even if slightly) than my Sony 24-105 at f4, surprising edges with a very slight drop to f2.8 but sharp almost as in the center at f4, always higher than Sony. Fast autofocus and without uncertainties. As for the 24mm focal length, which sometimes proves to be very useful, I bought a 24 f1.8 AF Samyang (another surprising lens that I will review shortly) and, for the part concerning the focal length greater than 75mm, the Tamron 70-180 f2.8 iii VXD, another very performing lens and of which I was very satisfied. In my opinion Tamron has worked very well on these lenses, I just have to use them for some time to verify their reliability. For now I can only recommend them.
Opinion:I tried before buying this lens, its rival par excellence, or the sigma contemporaney 28-70 f2.8, given immediately back after a few days since the lens with a not exceptional definition, and at 70mm it has a REALLY important collapse. Just arrived the Tamron G2 28-75 the first thing you notice is a little more weight and size, but we are on another planet, the comparison does not hold, clearly superior, slightly warmer colors than the sigma, but really a sharpness almost from fixed optics, if it beats it on equal terms with the sigma 24-70 Art. Very satisfied with this goal, taken at about 800 euros new, with 5 years warranty, what more could you want??? It also has a proprietary software with usb c socket where you can set many parameters, as well as a button also programmable If you are index between this and 28-70 sigma, do not think twice and buy this tamron G2 .. you will not regret it.
Pros:Build quality, tropicalization, programmable key, minimum AF distance, image quality
Cons:Barrel extension decidedly noisy and not very reassuring, price, "ring" diaphragms
Opinion:I bought this Tamron 28-75 G2 after trying the first version, looking for better build quality, decent hand feedback and some optical improvements (which never hurts). Construction side is definitely better, looks more solid and the barrel with different shapes improves the feedback and does not look like a Chinese Pringles tube. Too bad instead for the extension of the barrel during the zoom, which makes a tremendous noise of friction and reduced tolerances. It is hard to shoot, noisy in the video field and from a wrong impression on 900 euros of optics. His is the same as a barrel with grains of sand inside, but already from new. Moreover, if it already has such reduced tolerances when new, the time you get stuck a few grains of dust what will happen? The programmable button also, among the various functions, offers one that seemed phenomenal to me: the focus ring can be transformed into a diaphragm ring! Too bad that then it is not so functional, since it does not change value in a regular way and without clicks it does not return feedback. On the optical quality nothing to say, so much stuff. Sharp, lightning fast AF always, pleasant blur, focus even closer than before. Much faster, more reliable and more accurate than the first version You really do everything. I am not convinced that it is worth spending 900 euros for this instead of 500 for the first version used guaranteed, considering that it still has some diffettuccio .. EDIT: About the last sentence, in the end I returned it in favor of the first version at half price. A few more sacrifices, but nothing dramatic compared to the economic difference.
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