p.5 #3 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
For anyone interested, here’s a side-by-side comparison SOOC on left vs Topaz Denoise AI (with default “Standard” settings and sharpening) on right. I do notice a higher level of sharpness at f8 @ 400mm. Still for super zoom pretty impressive IMO
hasenbein wrote:
Thought so... The images convey an impression of sharpness which isn't there originally with this lens.
p.5 #4 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
what are everyone's impression on the out of camera rendering of this lens? especially in comparison to the 100-400 GM. stuff like flare, backlight handling, light falloff & transition, general depiction of atmosphere (fog/haze, water sparkles, shine), microcontrast, color reproduction (i.e. whether the colors are faithfully reproduced, considering correct WB, or there is unpleasing color cast/bleeding).
how does this lens render scenes with cloudy weather, shady areas in forests, harsh sunlight and reflections out of camera?
i'm not big on editing – I don't have time for it. i wish to just straighten, crop, correct white balance, add some contrast and recover highlights or shadows. if a lens has unpleasant or boring rendering I find myself not using it, even if it may be more practical or versatile.
what's your impression on this matter? any comparisons – between the 100-400 GM, the 100-400 Sigma, any other similar zooms either for Sony E or for other systems – are welcome.
p.5 #6 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
Very nice images here, nothing wrong with sharpness.
I'm trying to decide between this Tamron and the Sony 100-400. Both have strengths that appeal.
In some reviews significant vignetting issues are mentioned for the Tamron 50-400, wide open until around f/11. I don't see it mentioned here as being an issue, but Mads Peter Iversen talks about this in below two video's. He stated that it affects the colours a bit and needs work to get rid of in post processing.
I live near the coast and would be using the lens a lot with sky and sea in the image, I wonder if this would be an issue.
p.5 #7 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
Frankly, I am a pixel peeper and all that, but I never see something like a "vignetting issue" with this lens". Likewise regarding "color cast in the corner". In very few instances when I applied really strong dehaze and similar effects to the sky the corners got a color cast which I had to correct. Dunno whether that would have been different with another lens...
p.5 #8 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
tmaxmax wrote:
what are everyone's impression on the out of camera rendering of this lens? especially in comparison to the 100-400 GM. stuff like flare, backlight handling, light falloff & transition, general depiction of atmosphere (fog/haze, water sparkles, shine), microcontrast, color reproduction (i.e. whether the colors are faithfully reproduced, considering correct WB, or there is unpleasing color cast/bleeding).
how does this lens render scenes with cloudy weather, shady areas in forests, harsh sunlight and reflections out of camera?
i'm not big on editing – I don't have time for it. i wish to just straighten, crop, correct white balance, add some contrast and recover highlights or shadows. if a lens has unpleasant or boring rendering I find myself not using it, even if it may be more practical or versatile.
what's your impression on this matter? any comparisons – between the 100-400 GM, the 100-400 Sigma, any other similar zooms either for Sony E or for other systems – are welcome. ...Show more →
Good questions, I would like to know this too. Still unaswered, maybe this Image topic is niot the right place to ask.
p.5 #10 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
Michel85 wrote:
Good questions, I would like to know this too. Still unaswered, maybe this Image topic is niot the right place to ask.
The difficulty of giving advice here might be because the questions are about the out of camera "rendering." I (and likely other owners of this lens) process jpegs from raw. The image quality can be dramatically different between SOOC jpegs and those generated in post. Thus the image quality and rendering in the photos expertly processed from raw can be remotely related to the optical quality of a lens. For example, the perception of sharpness of an image strongly depends on the quality of sharpening in post.
p.5 #11 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
On Sunday we had really awesome weather conditions - just below 0 degrees celsius, and the whole day long swaths of ice fog came in and alternated with sunshine. Luckily I had the time to go out with my A7RV and the Tamron 50-400.
p.5 #13 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
I’m eager to get this lens out for some landscape shooting. In the meantime I’m very impressed at the wide open sharpness at 400mm on my old boy Nate tonight.
p.5 #14 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
Sorry for the newb question… I’m primarily an event photographer so my longest lens is like a 55mm… how would one hike with such a lens? Do you have it one a strap? And if so what sort of strap? One whose point if connection would be with the tripod collar? (I assume having a big lens dangling off the cmera might do a number on the mount?).
p.5 #15 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
zalmyb wrote:
Sorry for the newb question… I’m primarily an event photographer so my longest lens is like a 55mm… how would one hike with such a lens? Do you have it one a strap? And if so what sort of strap? One whose point if connection would be with the tripod collar? (I assume having a big lens dangling off the cmera might do a number on the mount?).
Thanks!!
I hike with my camera gear in a photography backpack. I'd keep this lens mounted to the camera, and I also have a 16-35mm lens in the bag for the times when I want to shoot wider than 50mm. When I was using this lens, I chose to use the tripod collar because I like that it's easy to switch between landscape and portrait orientation, and the lens wouldn't move as much in windy conditions.
p.5 #16 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
zalmyb wrote:
Sorry for the newb question… I’m primarily an event photographer so my longest lens is like a 55mm… how would one hike with such a lens? Do you have it one a strap? And if so what sort of strap? One whose point if connection would be with the tripod collar? (I assume having a big lens dangling off the cmera might do a number on the mount?).
Thanks!!
I have a Pgytech Beetle Clip (better than the Peak Design Capture Clip!) mounted on the right strap of my camera backpack (Pgytech OneMo 2). On it my A7RV with the Tamron 50-400 hangs while I hike, and it's always ready for shooting. Works perfectly fine, also for long hikes.
p.5 #17 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
zalmyb wrote:
Sorry for the newb question… I’m primarily an event photographer so my longest lens is like a 55mm… how would one hike with such a lens? Do you have it one a strap? And if so what sort of strap? One whose point if connection would be with the tripod collar? (I assume having a big lens dangling off the cmera might do a number on the mount?).
Thanks!!
I do most of my photography while hiking, recently with two cameras covering wide to normal (20-50mm) and telephoto (up to 1200mm) ranges. One is in a holster, and the other I keep in a light (not photography) backpack. When both cameras are actively used, I hold one and would switch with the other in the holster when needed. I really like holsters and have been using two (of different length) for years.
p.5 #18 · Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Image Thread
Finally getting my copy of the 50-400mm out in the landscape. I always love the deciduous forests in spring when they bloom with almost autumn-like pastel colors. Zoomed into a section of hillside in the Smoky Mountains.
