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Stabilized standard zoom... tamron is faster @ 2.8, nikon is longer @ 120mm, both have the image stabilization, both are pretty darn sharp according to online reviews, both are exactly the same price on amazon.
Thoughts?
P.S. Will be putting the lens on an 800E and will be used for studio/portraits/random-walk-around-the-woods lens.
Wish I could give you feedback on the Tamron, but have never used. I do have the 24-120/4.0 though, and use it on my D800. It's a nice lens. Pretty sharp I'd say, and VERY USEFUL range! There are a few drawback: it vignettes at widest setting and distortion is, well, bad at widest FL. I never shoot at either end of any zoom for these reasons.
I think I paid $950 used, and have never looked back. It's very good and problems I mentioned can easily be fixed in post. Check out my flickr pages...almost all of the beach shots were taken with it. You can check the EXIF info. good luck
I love the 24-120 f/4, AF is quick, good range, sharp wide open, can easily get 3 stops of VR.
I have not used the Tamron 24-70 but the other Tamron lenses I have tried the VC takes a second to start/work which I found slow enough to miss shots. They may have updated it though but I haven't researched it enough.
I'm not sure if either lens would take advantage of the "E" below F/8 so I'm not sure it would make much difference between the two.
another vote for Nikon 24 -120 very useful range.
vignettes and distortion can be easily and automatically corrected in lightroom
what other lenses do you have ?
70mm is a big short for portraiture; so if you do not have something like a 70 -200; I would go for the Nikon
sevencrossing said:
another vote for Nikon 24 -120 very useful range.vignettes and distortion can be easily and automatically corrected in lightroom
what other lenses do you have ?
70mm is a big short for portraiture; so if you do not have something like a 70 -200; I would go for the Nikon
The one or the other of the lenses in question will be complimenting a lens set up of a 50, and a 16-35 and in the future a 70-200. Basically a gap filler between the 16-35 and the future ownership of a 70-200. So I'm not entirely worried about the extra length of the nikon, because it will eventually get covered in my lens set up. But in the time between now and the glorious day i become a 70-200 owner the 120mm will be nice, but not entirely necessary.
TaoTeJared said:
I'm not sure if either lens would take advantage of the "E" below F/8 so I'm not sure it would make much difference between the two.
This lens is not intended to be taking full advantage of the resolution power here, for a portrait lens I intend to use higher apertures to make it just a hair softer. For my work where I want absolute sharpness, I have the 50mm 1.8g for stuff like architecture and still lifes, and the 16-35 for landscapes.
sevencrossing said:
a nice set of lenses, if you do not mind carrying a fairly heavy bag
but if you only want to travel light and still get stunning hi res shots, the 24 -120 is hard ( impossible) to beat
Well thanks for the input! Weight isn't much of an issue, certainly won't be taking all my lenses everywhere for everything, but even if I had to I've got a very nice backpack bag that I frequently carry bottles of water in on my hikes. Sooooo I'm not too worried about that aspect.
aquarian_light said:
Well thanks for the input! Weight isn't much of an issue, certainly won't be taking all my lenses everywhere for everything, but even if I had to I've got a very nice backpack bag that I frequently carry bottles of water in on my hikes. Sooooo I'm not too worried about that aspect.
You must be young. Weight is not a problem. Wish I could say that. It's not only the camera gear I have to carry but my own butt too. aquarian_light do it while you can and enjoy.
For me I like the overlap of the 120mm with the 70-200. There are many times when I do event photography that I don't have time to swap lenses, and that extra reach can grab something that I would miss. To me, overlap is wonderful and when I didn't have it, I always felt stuck.
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