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Review on πŸ“· Tamron SP AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Di USD (A005) Lens for Minolta A by Krishan Swami

Revainrating 5 out of 5

A very high-quality product, I take it not for the first time.

My main occupation is reportage filming of seminars, round tables, public speeches and lectures, often accompanied by video filming. Therefore, photography itself should be made from a decent distance and with a shutter speed of no more than 1/100 under artificial lighting without a flash. The lens copes with the tasks set without eating the entire available budget. The focusing issues that made it difficult to live in crop disappear on the full-frame 5d mk2, although autofocus is by no means the best in it. In general, more than a decent telephoto lens for 13 thousand paid for it.

Pros
  • Powerful stabilizer (especially important on crop, when the equivalent becomes 105-460mm). Quality construction. At its price, decent sharpness and aperture ratio. The focus ring is not rigidly connected to the mechanism; you can always quickly fix the automation. Large convenient toggle switches, primarily autofocus (for some reason, in shortcomings).
Cons
  • When used with an amateur camera (in my case, Canon 500d), the camera’s weak focusing starts to fail, with an initially almost focused picture, two or three full iterations are possible, which greatly slows down shooting. Saves from this quick shutdown of autofocus when shooting from one angle.