Camera Gear Reviews

This site focuses on reviewing gear that is outside the mainstream. There are plenty of sites that review the latest and greatest from the big names. The reviews on this site are often of gear that is now only available on the used market, was never reviewed when it was available new, or gear that otherwise interests the author. The reviews presented here are less about science and numbers and more about subjective impressions and feel. Creating this site is work that I enjoy. Hopefully you will find something useful or enjoyable as well.

Tamron 28-75mm 1:2.8

It is hard to find many negative things to say about this lens. Relatively affordable, relatively fast, relatively compact, and great image quality for it's price point. This lens was my primary optic for a the one year that I owned it. While it isn't in the same league as Canon's EF 24-70mm 1:2.8 it fills a similar role and does it well enough that most users will be plenty happy with Tamron's version.

Tamron 28-75mm 1:2.8 for Canon

This Tamron was my first lens upgrade from the included kit lens, an EFs 18-55mm II, which was not hauling the mail. Some casual testing showed that it could produce good images. (If I avoided the extreme ends of the zoom range and stopped down a bit.) But in real life shooting situations it sometimes didn't. When I upgraded to Tamron's 28-75mm 1:2.8 zoom I found a new level of sharpness. Maybe it was the faster shutter speed and lack of user induced camera shake. Maybe my technique was improving. Either way, the average image quality was much higher when I switched to Tamron's 28-75mm.