Tamron 150-600 Review

[Peter Betts]

Pete now you need to upgrade to the G2 version

[okie]

Very nice
I was quoted about R16 000 by Orms in Cape Town last year .......

[PJL]

Pete now you need to upgrade to the G2 version Tamron-SP-150-600mm-G2-Side-Switches.jpg

I tried it out when it first came out but didn’t find much to sway me at the time. The autofocus is better and I must admit it may become an addition in the future but for now I went with the Canon 100-400 mainly due to the autofocus speed and accuracy

[Peter Betts]

Pete now you need to upgrade to the G2 version Tamron-SP-150-600mm-G2-Side-Switches.jpg

I tried it out when it first came out but didn’t find much to sway me at the time. The autofocus is better and I must admit it may become an addition in the future but for now I went with the Canon 100-400 mainly due to the autofocus speed and accuracy

Yip Pete that Canon MKII is a great improvement over the soft at long end MkI canon 100-400 ..Pity it doesnt come out with a Nikon Mount but having said that I used to shoot crop Factor Nikon D500 with Nikons version of the Canon 100-400 namely the 80-400 and that gave me 600mm essential for Mt Zebra and Kgalagadi etc but now I am back on Full Frame D850 and the Tamron G2 150-600mm gets me there

[Peter Betts]

Very nice
I was quoted about R16 000 by Orms in Cape Town last year .......

Okie you should have bought it at R16 K they are now over R19 K still a STEAL compared to the Nikon 200-400 F4 @ R 170 000

[okie]

Hmmm..... ag man , it's just money . But , at my age , I'm afraid the return on investment for that Nikon lens is not worth it

But , the Tamron is still a temptation , if just for the weight And the additional reach is another bonus .....

Anyone wants to buy my Bigma 50 - 500 ??

[Peter Betts]

[Sprocky]

I see that Sigma has also brought out a 150-600mm lens. It is at Macro for R12,000-00.

[Richprins]

How can you have a 600mm macro lens?

[okie]

Hmmm..... its like macro-economics --- its far-seeing , with nothing in sight