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To: JAKraig
I use mostly a Nikon D810 and not long ago bought the G2 version of the Tamron 150-600mm telephoto lens. It is not expensive as long lenses go but to me still at $1500 a bit pricey, but it is not a constant aperture which would be thousands more expensive.

Water resistant and web connectivity, especially to YouTube? BTW, that is a bit pricey but since I am the Coupon Whisperer, I have my ways of knocking the price waaaay down.

9 posted on 05/10/2019 5:57:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (SUBSCRIBE to the DUmmie FUnnIes YouTube Channel...NOW!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix

I use mostly a Nikon D810 and not long ago bought the G2 version of the Tamron 150-600mm telephoto lens. It is not expensive as long lenses go but to me still at $1500 a bit pricey, but it is not a constant aperture which would be thousands more expensive.

Water resistant and web connectivity, especially to YouTube? BTW, that is a bit pricey but since I am the Coupon Whisperer, I have my ways of knocking the price waaaay down.

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I like prices Waay down. Your welcome to share any of those kind of secrets with me any time.

As far as the Tamron 150-600, I did trade in a couple lenses that I was no longer using. Not that there was anything wrong with them but I never did really get the performance from my 70-300 Tamron that I wanted but the old non VC Tamron 28-150 2.8 was really a pretty nice performer until I got the Tamron 24-70 2.8 which is tack sharp. While there are a lot of parameters that are important in a lens if sharpness is not there then the others don’t really matter to me. I have heard photographers who say that some of us put too much emphasis on sharpness, nonsense I say, they just haven’t used a sharp lens/camera combination before. When I had the D800 I thought it was the sharpest camera in an FX size in the world until I saw an 810. Wow! Just wow. I might be willing to try an 850 but the 850 does not have a pop-up flash that I like to use with my CLS speed lights so, I’m stuck here, at least for a while. Yes I know I could always put the SB800 or 900 on the camera and control the others but that really adds weight to a system that already has a heavy lens and since I have the grip with an extended battery I don’t need the extra weight.


13 posted on 05/10/2019 8:25:29 AM PDT by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Autofocus lens for Nikon AF-D Cameras
https://www.adorama.com/us%20%20%201129381.html?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=adl-gbase


27 posted on 05/10/2019 7:44:05 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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