Nikon Fisheye Review
nikon fisheye review
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Tamron 18-200mm VS Nikon 18-200mm VR?
I am a little weary about investing into a Tamron 18-200mm.
I dont want to blow 250 dollars on a crappy lens, which i’m sure its not, but from reading reviews i get more and more paranoid about buying it.
Sure i would buy the Nikon lens in a heartbeat, had it not be the fact that its 600+ dollars for the VR lens! I can buy a whole new camera body with that amount of cash, and the only time i will spend that much money on a lens is if it were a fisheye.
What are your opinions on the Tamron?
My friend who has her own photography business and studio, owns a Nikon D200 and a Sigma 18-200mm. She said theres seriously not much a difference and the Sigmas and Tamrons are just as good.
Hi takeasta,
Tamron makes some excellent lenses, but their 18-200mm is not one of them. Their 18-250mm has much better image quality, though of course it is also more expensive at about $450.
If you want to keep the cost down on a super zoom with good image quality, I would suggest looking at the Sigma 18-125mm, at about $300.
To keep the cost down a little further without sacrificing image quality, I would look at a used Tamron 24-135mm or Sigma 24-135mm. That should keep the cost at or below the price of the Tamron 18-200, with much better image quality. Note, the Sigma is 2/3 stop faster than the Tamron but soft wide open, otherwise fine.
If you’re willing to look at used lenses, be sure to look at used Sigma 18-125mm. Two of them with Nikon mounts sold on eBay recently for $62 and $100, both in excellent condition.
If you don’t trust eBay, KEH is very reliable for used equipment:
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Your friend probably has nice studio lighting in her photography studio, so she can stop down her lenses to their optimal apertures, where even a mediocre lens can produce adequate image quality. Assuming you’re not planning on always shooting under similar ideal lighting conditions, you’ll often have to shoot wide open, where the Tamron 18-200mm will be disappointing.
BTW, regarding another answer you were given, the absence of secret features to be revealed in the future doesn’t usually mean the lens becomes unuseable. It just means the new feature isn’t available with the old lens. I have third-party lenses made nearly 40 years ago that perform flawlessly on my modern DSLR, though of course not with modern features like auto-focus and matrix metering.
Good luck and have fun!
Greg
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