01-17-2018, 08:23 PM
Arrived! Not "in da lab", just "at da JoJu" 
Weather report is something between totally shitty and depressing for the weekend, therefore I like to talk about little sweet features. Before I compare it to some 300ish lenses.
The part of the barrel which will take the tripod collar is made of metal. Yes! Collar will be 150 more, but the lens is so well balanced and light that a collar would only be the easy switch form landscape to portrait.
The shake reduction is highly impressive to me. I went down to 1/25 and I consider that as pretty okay. At 1/5 it started to work beyond it's limits. And somehow I think, the Fujinon will have a hard time to catch up with it, although it's f/⅔ faster at the long end. And +10 mm bigger in ø for the filter.
A very cool feature I saw in the manual: The focus limiter can be set up in the tap-in console and by default it's 7 m. 1.5 - 7 m or 7 m - ∞ ? The answer is yes to both. Depending on the position of the distance scale when I switch over to the limiter, the focus will be limited either up to 7 m or down to 7 m. I don't recall I've seen such a clever solution before.
AF accuracy out of the box appeared to be nothing to complain about, but take it with a grain of salt.
Okay, the Tamron is only "designed in Japan" whereas the Sigma is also "made in Japan", but since I also buy computers "designed in California", who am I to blame Tamron? So far I'm rather surprised about the IQ and wondering if some real life shots will hold up to it.
Edit: I used the tap-in utility to change the limit distance. Another surprise. The behaviour I tried to explain is available as well as a more accustomed behaviour, meaning the switch gets a maximum and minimum distance I can choose at will. That's what I call clever and well thought customisation, are you listening, Fujifilm?
Weather report is something between totally shitty and depressing for the weekend, therefore I like to talk about little sweet features. Before I compare it to some 300ish lenses.The part of the barrel which will take the tripod collar is made of metal. Yes! Collar will be 150 more, but the lens is so well balanced and light that a collar would only be the easy switch form landscape to portrait.
The shake reduction is highly impressive to me. I went down to 1/25 and I consider that as pretty okay. At 1/5 it started to work beyond it's limits. And somehow I think, the Fujinon will have a hard time to catch up with it, although it's f/⅔ faster at the long end. And +10 mm bigger in ø for the filter.
A very cool feature I saw in the manual: The focus limiter can be set up in the tap-in console and by default it's 7 m. 1.5 - 7 m or 7 m - ∞ ? The answer is yes to both. Depending on the position of the distance scale when I switch over to the limiter, the focus will be limited either up to 7 m or down to 7 m. I don't recall I've seen such a clever solution before.
AF accuracy out of the box appeared to be nothing to complain about, but take it with a grain of salt.
Okay, the Tamron is only "designed in Japan" whereas the Sigma is also "made in Japan", but since I also buy computers "designed in California", who am I to blame Tamron? So far I'm rather surprised about the IQ and wondering if some real life shots will hold up to it.
Edit: I used the tap-in utility to change the limit distance. Another surprise. The behaviour I tried to explain is available as well as a more accustomed behaviour, meaning the switch gets a maximum and minimum distance I can choose at will. That's what I call clever and well thought customisation, are you listening, Fujifilm?