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Tamron 15O-6OOG2 New to me

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Posted by blackfox: Fri Jul 4th, 2025 05:38

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Having just returned to the Nikon fold and settled on a D500 I needed a lens to go with it , acquired a 300 pf for the weight and a 1.4 and 1.7 tc combo .. but I found I was getting weird artefacts over water ?
Did my research and for my birding needs it narrowed the choice down to 3 lenses the nik 200-500, sig 150-600c or the Tamron 150-600 g2 ..
While on a recent holiday in Devon I took advantage of being near to mifsuds to pop over and view all 3 lenses together and thanks to the owners generous PX offer settled on the Tamron ,which it turns out he had mistakenly priced up as a mki version.
I did manage a few shots while away but nothing special so was a tad suspect on whether it was the right choice or even a good copy . But once home and able to check better I found it was front focussing a bit a couple of hours spent curing that has gotten me some superb images to date and I’m more than happy with this lens for the sub £500 cost

Posted by jk: Fri Jul 4th, 2025 07:47

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Sounds like you got a great deal from Mifsuds. Well worth the tinkering required with a DSLR AF system.

They say that mirrorless always get the focus correct but up until recently with my Zf, Z8 the AF was not always super sharp but seems to be resolved in the last 6 months either through me being ultra careful on my focus point setting or the firmware upgrades have finally got it performing correctly.

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