Photographing Children with Candice Stringham

[Cagey75]

Ithreemafia, you have no clue either. I seen your poor reviews of the sigma. You choose it over the tamron because it looked nicer. What a clown. You are no pro, I wish you'd stop making useless reviews.

[Cagey75]

The only amateurs here are the ones swearing in their replies. This lens is optically superior to the sigma and canon. It's barely slower too. God help you people if you ever have to manual focus. Relying on fast af is for amateurs.

[TheRubycapulong]

she says fast lens,not fast focus...fucking amatures!

[behbeh144]

fking slow!!

[ithree6mafia]

i heard the sigma 70-200 HSM II was better

[jason950216]

Too slow for me at least

[Brenniman65]

My humble opinion but it seems that at 1:57 the child's face is washed out or the white balance looks inaccurate.

[Dessper23]

Tamron has slower focus speed but optical quality is better than Canon 70-200 L. I don't know about Nikkor but this Tamron is a really good piece of the lens! When You will learn the focus You can take sharp photos of fast moving vehicles like cars, motobikes and planes without problem. Optics in this camera are great! Comparing to photos from Canon 70-200 L lens there is less flaring, better picture quality-really sharp and it costs 2X less than L. For me Tamron was a great choice!!!

[jepoyski1001]

makes nice pictures but a little slow...and i accidentaly broke one. darn,good thing i catched it! hehe... although it is awesome for portraitures.

[cleitak]

Re the focus speed on the tamron, vs say the nikon 70-200 2.8.. I bought one yesterday (the Tamron) and was heartbroken to read reviews later, that I had not found before buying the lens. However, the store owner agreed, but, when comparing the nikon and the tamron, Im kinda thinkin they are almost on par with each other, in fact, the Nikon when randomly moving from object to object I found was hunting more!! The Tamron seems to have awesome crisp focus so far!! More testing to go yet!

[veoquenoesunproblema]

guys, a got a 40D also but I press to mid shooter button and the camera let me choose the aperture without lost it, example, with a 24 70mm I choose the 55mm segment, and the camera let me choose the f2.8, it's that posible? or I just was crazy saying this?

[skhstyle7]

Kick them in the head then they will stand still for a snap shot!! LMAO

[NixxerJixxerWixxer]

Tamron 70-200? Cmon thats awfully slow

[sasktank]

test's show this 70-200 lens is sharper at f/2.8 than canon or nikon 70-200 lenses

[xjoncamposx]

Link?

[danaldinho82]

shes cute :D

[whoppers1000]

I really need to know if this lens will do well as a wedding lens when I need to do close tight shots? This anyone have any suggestions? Or would a Canon 70-200 f/4 IS lens do? Please respond, I would appreciate anyones's input.

[SamsungGX20]

It depends, the Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 hunts a lot more than it's competitors at low light, but at the same time the Canon 70-200 f/4 may not be suitable enough for wedding photography in low light without flash as it's an f/4. Optically the Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 is better than the Canon 70-200 f/2.8.

[whoppers1000]

Have you used this lens for weddings? I'd like to know what your thoughts are on this lens because I'm considering buying one for my Canon 50d.

[ddtninja]

seems to vignette like a bitch around 3:00. maybe that was done on purpose?

[JWK35]

of course it was, remember its a full frame lens on a crop body so there would be no vignetting at all

[cayn2m]

I think that was done on purpose. Look at the first pictures.. no vignetting. I also tested this lenses on Nikon D40 and D300 (crop sensors) at f2.8 and there isn't vignette. :)

[GLXLR]

For this kind of work, I prefer a 50-135mm or 50-150mm range over the 70-200mm on cropped bodies. Although the 20mm diff between 50mm and 70mm sounds less than the diff between 135 to 200mm, they are exactly the same relative difference (50-135mm on crop bodies = 75-200mm)

[whoppers1000]

What about the Tokina 50-135 F/2.8 lens?  Is that a good lens?

[SamsungGX20]

I have the Pentax DA* 50-135 f/2.8 and it's comparable to primes. Tokina buys their optics from Pentax so it's probably the same, although the coating may be different.

[alimagics]

u r pro

[mahalolovesyou]

ive read a lot of reviews for this lens, and it is quite compared to the canon and sigma equivalent.

[loco039]

Nice lens but wich one is better this or canon 70-200 f2.8L mm both are without IS or VC. I`ve been planing to buy 70-200mm f2.8L IS but is expensive thas why I`m thinking to buy one of these none IS.

Help!

[GLXLR]

depends on what body you have. If you have a cropped body, a more useful range for portraits and general work are the 50-135mm or 50-150mm lenses by tamron and sigma.

[Boscorelli997]

cool and cheap lens but to slow for sports photography :|

[canonsucks]

ummm slow as in AF speed or slow for aperture?

[z28ken]

If the Tamron is anything like the Sigma 70-200/2.8, then the AF is slower than the Canon version. 2.8 lens seem to work fine for me in well lit outdoor sports events (baseball, football), but slow for night games and any indoor sports. I make do by upping the ISO, but if money wasn't an issue, a 200 f/2 would be nice :)

[Graynven]

He means af.

It's bizzare that there isn't a proprietry hsm in this lens as tamron had to add an in lens motor for canon and nikon for the non screw drive lower end cameras.

IMHO Tamron are lazy with af. The 18-250 Sony takes 1/2 to 1/3 of the turns that the Tamron 18-250 does to infinity focus.

[SythOfDeath69er]

to slow??? whats ur idea of a long lense and a small aperture

[germandude1982]

AF of course...