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Tamron 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III VXD Review – Faster, Lighter, Cheaper, and Sharper

Tamron has released hit after hit for Sony E-Mount since they introduced the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD FE, which was followed by the excellent Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 Di III RXD FE. Now Tamron is releasing the Tamron 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III VXD FE that will complete their trinity of zoom lenses for E-Mount. I […]

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Optical Limits: Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS G Master Review

Optical Limits (formerly Photozone.de) reviewed Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS G Master lens and it produced very respectable results, but for half the price you can get the Sony FE 70-200mm f/4 G OSS or Sony FE 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G OSS. I personally own the Sony FE 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G OSS and find it to be a […]

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Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS (SEL70200GM) Firmware 4.0

Sony released firmware 4.0 for the Sony 70-200 GM and it can be downloaded here. Features This update (version 04) resolves an issue where some products may not operate properly after updating to version 03.  

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Sony a9: AF Performance With Native Glass/A-Mount Glass/Canon Glass and More

The Sony a9 has impressive speed in many ways, but performance is very lens dependent and so far I haven’t seen anything out of the a9 that my Fujifilm X-T2 can’t achieve beyond maybe having a slightly higher hit rate. Of course, it can fire at 20 fps vs 14fps, but I’m not sure it’s […]

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Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS Tear Down

image courtesy of Lens rentals One of lens rental’s customers dropped a  Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS jamming the focus system, so they decided to do a tear down to fix the problem. The tear down took 6 hours to complete. The read is lengthy and is two parts long. Part one goes rear half […]

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The Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS Has Disappointing Initial Test Results

image courtesy of Lensrentals Lensrentals released their test results for the Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS and they are surprisingly disappointing. Up until now I have heard very good things about this lens, but Lensrentals testing is very reputable and they seemed shocked by the results too. “If you view the charts at 100%, you’ll […]

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