For that price, you might imagine it
being an ƒ/2.8. Also, you have to turn
the lens just a touch to open it up to
use it, but that’s more of a quibble.
There’s no optical image stabilization
built into the lens since it’s designed to
be used with either the Nikon Z 6 or
Z 7, which come with in-body image
stabilization, or IBIS.
For video, it worked very well. I
didn’t find that the lens produced any
jitter while capturing video. I also
found the video footage produced
with this lens to be quite responsive to
changes in lighting.
By and large, I found it to be a very
good NIKKOR Z ultra-wide lens,
great for shooting events, landscapes
and other genres.
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Tamron 17-35mm F/2.8-4 Di OSD
For those on a budget, the Tamron
17-35mm F/2.8-4 Di OSD ultra-
wide-angle lens for Canon and Nikon
full-frame DSLR cameras does a
marvelous job in many shooting envi-
ronments—including street shooting
in city, suburban and rural settings. It’s
great for travel, too, because it includes
a rugged exterior, moisture-resistant
construction and fluorine coating on
the lens.
I found this wide-angle lens was
quite versatile, whether I was shoot-
ing landscapes, environmental por-
traits or action. It has an optical con-
struction of 15 elements in 10 groups,
using four LD (Low Dispersion) lens
elements to minimize axial chro-
matic aberrations. It’s constructed to
let you focus at a fairly close mini-
mum distance of 11 inches. Also, the
bokeh on this lens is quite good as
well. (For my test, I paired this lens
with the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
full-frame DSLR.)
I was pleased with the image quality
on this lens, finding it worked well inA powerful quality on the Canon RF
24-240mm F4-6.3 IS USM zoom (above) is
its 10x optical zoom. The two images below,
taken in New York, reveal how you can get
quite creative with such a wide zoom range.The Tamron 17-35mm F/2.8-4 Di OSD (below)
is an ultra zoom for full-frame DSLRs.
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