This is a brief excerpt from F-Stoppers
There have been a few really great lenses released in the past couple months hogging the spotlight, so it wouldn’t surprise me if the newly released upgraded Tamron 90mm f/2.8 VC Macro passed under your radar. I’ve had a few weeks with it and have mixed feelings on Tamron’s latest prime.
Tamron’s 90mm f/2.8 SP Di MACRO 1:1 VC USD replaces the aged SP 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro Autofocus Lens for those of you keeping track, and sells for $750 from various retailers. At that price point, it’s not expensive but it’s not cheap enough to qualify as an impulse buy either.
When you first pick up this lens, what is going to strike you most is how light it feels. Shooting on heavier lenses for the past few months, it was a little bit of a relief, but that was also mixed with a major question: how good is the build quality? Like a majority of Tamron lenses, the body of the lens is plastic and rubber with no visible metal parts. I have mixed feelings about this. After holding heavy and well-built lenses from Canon and Sigma, “sexy” is not an adjective I would …
By: Jaron Schneider
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