Tamron 17-70mm f/2.8 for Fujifilm X Reviews Roundup
Earlier today Tamron announced its second autofocus lens for Fujifilm X, the Tamron 17-70mm f/2.8.
We already had a mini live-blog with some reviews covered in this article. So if you missed it, definitely check them out here.
But new reviews have been published since then so I thought it would make sense to give you an update
Already shared in the live blog
- BH Explora – Tamron Announces the Versatile Mid-Range 17-70mm f/2.8 Lens for FUJIFILM X
- ivanjoshualoh – G P L : General Purpose Lens
New reviews:
Video Reviews (some with Summary)
Christopher Frost
- built quality typical for a modern Tamron device, mostly plastic but feels solid and tightly assembled
- weather sealing gasket around mount
- focus ring turns reasonably smoothly and responds reasoably well
- very littel focus breathing
- not parafocal (focus point will shift a little while you zoom in and out)
- averagly fast autofocus motor, accurate and almost completely silent
- has it’s own “VC” stabilization system
- zoom ring turns averagly smoothly
- 67mm filter size
- still solid built
- electronics handle nicely on his Fujifilm X-T3
- at 17mm at f/2.8
– in the center, sharpness and contrast are prefect
– in the corners, almost as sharp but some fairly heavy color fringing (maybe in camera corrections need a little tweaking) - at 17mm at f/4
– excellent sharpness in corners, but color fringing remains - at 17mm at f/11
– diffraction begins to cause some softness - at 35mm at f/2.8
– excellent sharpness and contrast in the middle
– in corners image quality virtually as good with no visible color fringing - at 35mm at f/4
– brings a little extra contrast into the corners - at 70mm at f/2.8
– in the center image sharpness remains good, but contrast is a bit lower
– in the corners image quality becomes a bit soft - at 70mm at f/4
– slight improvement of contrast in the corners
– in the center excellent performance again - at 70mm at f/5.6
– corners just a bit sharper and remains like this until f/11 - overall, if we don’t take into account the performance at 70mm at f/2.8, the lens image quality is fairly good.
- it does not perform miracles, but considering the zoom range it is decently sharp with good contrast
- Distortion and Vignetting
– at 17mm moderately strong barrel distortion and darkness in the corners at f/2.8
– darkness gets gradually pushed back at f/4, f/5.6 and f/8
– at 22mm distortion straightens out
– at 70mm quite stron pin cushion distortion and corners suffer from vignetting. At f/4 and f/5.6 corners brighten up
– keep in camera correction turned on (as they are automatically on a Fuji camera) - Bonus Feature: a close focus ability. You can go quite close to a subject
– close up image quality when zoomed out image quality at f/2.8 remains sharp and very sharp at f/4
– close up IQ at 70mm: close up IQ very soft at f/2.8 with color tinting. Stop down to f/4, f/5.6 and f/8 to see gradual improvements that lead to excellent image quality - at the wide end little flaring, reasonably good performance. Zoom in, and flaring gets a lot worst
- Bokeh: impressively smooth with no ugliness or problems at all
- autofocus works really well
- he highly recommends it
Tamron 17-70mm f/2.8: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama
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