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After a cool walk home from school, I was greeted with a nice big package from Amazon. It looks like UPS had come early! With it came my purchase of the Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD on sale for only $399 from over $900. This is just a quick review of some preliminary findings. Aviation-wise, hopefully I'll test her out on Saturday or Sunday.
These were taken by my iPhone.
There she is! A quick note on packaging. It was packaged very well, very secure with plenty of padding and plastic covering parts that needed to be covered. Very good job, Tamron. My initial thoughts were that the lens was very nice aesthetically, it has a copper like ring with a black exterior, which went very well. The numbers are easy to see, and are white. The lens is a bit heavier than my old EF 70-300 f/4-5.6, which made it feel very well built. Not too heavy that you can't shoot with it without problem, but not that light cheap feel either. It is about the same size as my EF, maybe slightly larger.
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I took it out for a quick test run comparing it to my EF afterwards.
EF:
SP:
These were taken at 300mm, Full auto (So they were JPEG), and from the same position. The Tamron was clearly sharper, really not even a contest there. I will check for noise this weekend, but both look pretty good noise wise.
This one was much closer sharpness wise, but the Tamron was still sharper (look at the digits on the oven). It also provided much brighter, truer colors on an especially lightless, gloomy day. Props to the Tamron there as well.
This one was pretty clear as well. Look at the contrast. The Tamron provided a much brighter picture as well. This was taken at 70mm.
Really much sharper on the Tamron here as well. 300mm.
So far I really like this lens. It far surpasses the EF 70-300 f/4-5.6. I will add more this weekend with aviation shots.
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Originally Posted by megatop412
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