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The Superzoom which actually DOES it

Started Sep 6, 2014 | User reviews thread
AdamT
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Re: The Superzoom which actually DOES it

By the way, here is something that I recall from a few years ago when David Kilpatrick reviewed the Sony 18-250mm lens. He found that it was only at the last few millimeters of focal length that it got significantly worse.

That was the Tamron 18-250 with a sony badge and it was decent, I had one until the superior 18-270VC (1st rev) came out as it beat all the sigmas bar stellar copies of the original 1st generation non stabilized 18-200DC . the long end of the Tamron (sony) 18-250 was poor at the edges at 250 though as you say got better as you zoomed back,  at close distance anyway..  getting the edges sharp in a compressed landscape needed F16 which wasn`t good for any APS-C sensor above 6Mp.

Tests in Reviews are always done at close range, garden distance at most . the new Panny 14-140 even pulls it off at infinity which is the hardest part (and essential for compressed landscapes), only really good 70-300 full frame lenses can pull this off on APS-C  .. What gets me about the panny II is that the close focussing at 140 is very good indeed for both closeness and quality , total contrast to its stablemates,  14-42-IIHD and 45-150 which don`t even get remotely close at full zoom and aren't at their best as close as they do get.

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