For those photographers looking for a light and compact telephoto zoom for the Sony system, wait no longer. The Tamron model is here and made to impress. When I finally got my hands on the new Tamron 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III VXD made specifically for mirrorless cameras, the Sony system particularly, I was admittedly a bit disappointed that I wasn’t traveling out west. The fact of the matter is that for my style of landscape photography, I prefer telephoto lenses west of the Mississippi and wide-angle lenses east of the Mississippi. As strange and seemingly random as that may sound, that’s just what I’ve preferred up to this point. As such, I was admittedly pretty skeptical about the usefulness and utility of this lens here in Ohio. I was, however, pleasantly surprised in taking it out for a medium-long hike in the snow. Compared with the only other lens in its class, the Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS , the Tamron is nearly half the weight (coming in at 810 g compared with 1,480 g of the Sony) and a whole two inches shorter (5.87 inches for the Tamron compared to 7.87 inches for the Sony). Further, the […]
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