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Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III VXD G2 Review

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The Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III VXD G2 lens is a high-quality and versatile lens, perfect for creative photography. It offers excellent sharpness, beautiful bokeh, and a close focus distance, making it great value for money at $900.

Testing out this new Tamron lens was a delightful experience, with its high sharpness and bokeh, as well as its close focus distance, making it a creative and versatile zoom lens that lets you capture beautiful images. It's a nice improvement over its predecessor in a number of different aspects, and at $900, it's a great value for money. I have no hesitation at all in saying this one comes highly recommended.

Pros
  • Excellent sharpness
  • Beautiful bokeh
  • Close focus distance
  • Great value for money
Cons
  • Some focus breathing
  • Distortion and vignetting
  • No image stabilization

The image quality of the lens is exceptional, with razor-sharp details and minimal chromatic aberration at various focal lengths. It also performs impressively on APS-C cameras, delivering sharp results with great detail.

The Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III VXD G2 lens is a high-quality and versatile lens, perfect for creative photography. It offers excellent sharpness, beautiful bokeh, and a close focus distance, making it great value for money at $900. The lens is designed to work with Sony's full-frame mirrorless cameras, providing a flexible compromise between a workable zoom range and a wider maximum aperture of f/2.8. Built with high-quality materials, the lens features a smooth manual focus ring and a responsive focus motor. The lens exhibits some focus breathing, but it's not too serious. The image quality of the lens is exceptional, with razor-sharp details and minimal chromatic aberration at various focal lengths. It also performs impressively on APS-C cameras, delivering sharp results with great detail. The lens does exhibit some distortion and vignetting, but the in-camera corrections work effectively. Overall, the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III VXD G2 is a delightful lens that comes highly recommended for its outstanding performance and good value for money.

The Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III VXD G2 lens is a high-quality and versatile lens, perfect for creative photography. It offers excellent sharpness, beautiful bokeh, and a close focus distance, making it great value for money at $900.

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