Horoscope Fish
Senior Member
After much deliberation I upgraded my previous Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD to the new Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD G2, which arrived yesterday. By all accounts the G2 is an entirely different lens as compared to its predecessor. I've taken the lens out for a couple of shoots now and I'm starting to feel more at home with it. Every review I read/watched regarding this lens promised snappy, confident auto-focus leaps and bounds better than the G1 and I am finding this to be true. Focus confirmation is immediate and unwavering.
Tamron sells the Tap-In Console that allows for calibrating the Auto-focus on this particular lens at four focusing distances, and at three different focal lengths, for a total of up to twelve calibration adjustments. Phew! That's a little more work that I'm willing to put in right now so I ran a test at 200mm, and again at 70mm, and found the lens needed a minor adjustment (+7) that worked very well at both extremes. Close enough for government work!
I am finding I need to handle this lens a little differently while shooting because the focus-ring makes it easy to inadvertently "adjust" focus manually. The focus ring is in the same place as it is on the G1, but the G2 version seems more prone, somehow, to me rotating it by mistake. It could be that I've simply not shot this lens in some time and that I need to reacquaint myself with it.
Another minor bummer is that Correction Profiles have not yet been released for this lens. That means things like vignetting and linear distortion have to be corrected manually in Camera Raw (((( GAH!! ))) I guess didn't realize how dependent I had become on lens profiles. A profile will be out shortly I'm sure but it sucks in the mean time.
So any-hoo... Here are some test shots taken earlier this morning. Not any great art, just some quick shots taken while putzing about. The lizard was quite the little ham, though, and a nice surprise subject. He found a nice hot rock to bake his belly on after our shoot so that was nice for him. Oh, and his name is Alonzo.
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Tamron sells the Tap-In Console that allows for calibrating the Auto-focus on this particular lens at four focusing distances, and at three different focal lengths, for a total of up to twelve calibration adjustments. Phew! That's a little more work that I'm willing to put in right now so I ran a test at 200mm, and again at 70mm, and found the lens needed a minor adjustment (+7) that worked very well at both extremes. Close enough for government work!
I am finding I need to handle this lens a little differently while shooting because the focus-ring makes it easy to inadvertently "adjust" focus manually. The focus ring is in the same place as it is on the G1, but the G2 version seems more prone, somehow, to me rotating it by mistake. It could be that I've simply not shot this lens in some time and that I need to reacquaint myself with it.
Another minor bummer is that Correction Profiles have not yet been released for this lens. That means things like vignetting and linear distortion have to be corrected manually in Camera Raw (((( GAH!! ))) I guess didn't realize how dependent I had become on lens profiles. A profile will be out shortly I'm sure but it sucks in the mean time.
So any-hoo... Here are some test shots taken earlier this morning. Not any great art, just some quick shots taken while putzing about. The lizard was quite the little ham, though, and a nice surprise subject. He found a nice hot rock to bake his belly on after our shoot so that was nice for him. Oh, and his name is Alonzo.
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