Initial Photos with Tamron 150-500 MM (Nikon mount)

Took these all handheld shots with a Nikon D7000 of some birds in the back yard. All shots were taken at 600MM in late afternoon. Due to the lighting, all the shots were taken at ISOs of 1600 or 3200. All of these shots were cropped pretty heavily. I am excited about the potential of this lens with some practice.

Off to a good start! Better than my first pics with my 150-500mm. The OS works pretty well so Ive learned to keep the iso down more to reduce noise. This one was in poor lighting using my D7100. iso800 , ss1/60th , f8 . Still used a noise filter on it though. Bob

Those look pretty good! I'm tempted to try this lens after seeing so many decent pictures made with it. Did you need to AF fine tune it?

By the way, is your thread title correct? Don't you mean Tamron 150-600 lens?

I haven't done any test yet to see if fine tuning is needed.

And yes, the caption should have been Tamron 150-600--must have been a little tired early this morning when I uploaded the images. By the way, this is the first time I have uploaded images to this website. Can you or anyone point me to the location on the site of the rules/guidelines for uploading images, including maximum size and number limitations, format (raw vs. jpeg, etc.)? Thanks

Agree that I really need to get the ISO numbers down to control the noise. One challenge with these specific shots was the birds were eating seed out of a feeder platform and moving constantly so I had to use a higher shutter speed.

crescentmotor1 said:

Agree that I really need to get the ISO numbers down to control the noise. One challenge with these specific shots was the birds were eating seed out of a feeder platform and moving constantly so I had to use a higher shutter speed.

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I was confused with the title. Only saw 150-500mm so I thought it was a Sigma which I have. The IS works really well on it so Im not afraid to go below 1/100th on the long end with still subjects. That said I'm sure the Tamron IS works well too. Bob

Below are a few from yesterday taken at Jamaica Bay in New York. It was a cloudy, overcast day. Mostly shot at ISO 800-1600. The heron was so well hidden in the tree and I could hardly see it.































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Laslo

Just an aside but when looking at the initial RAW images in PP, it seemed to me that the Tamron 150-600 images were noticeably sharper than similar bird shots I have made with my Nikon 70-300 f/4.5-5.6. That really surprised me given that these initial shots were at 600 mm vs. the 300 mm used for the Nikon. I initially made this observation when I realized I was not applying near as much PP sharpening to the images. I am going to do some side by side comps at varying focal distances to confirm this.