Tamron 50-300mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD:
B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Sony Alpha Blog published its full review of the Tamron 50-300mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD that you can read in full here or check out the excerpt below:
Pros
- Excellent sharpness wide open in the centre on most of the range (50 to 200mm) , very good at 300mm
- Price
- Compact and light
- Very versatile lens with 6x zoom : portrait, proxy macro, street, travel, landscape, sport or wildlife
- Soft background blur as of 100mm
- Very good color rendition
- Good ergonomics with possible customisation via Tamron lens utility
- Very Good build quality
- Very good AF in most cases
- Low focus breathing
- Almost parfocal
- Min focusing distance
- at 50mm is 22cm allowing to do proxy photography (0;5x magnification ratio),
- at 300mm – 90cm – 0,33 x magnification ratio
- Good Resistance to flare
- Low CA
Average
- Good to very good corners
- AF for erratic movements
- AF : slight misfocus in 15% of cases
- Zoom throw a bit long
- Small aperture make ISO climbing fast on the long range
- Distortion and Vignetting (but this should be automatically corrected in Lightroom in the future)
Cons
- None
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