Long time ago, in the galaxy far far away, no lah. Last week closed a deal with one of nice lelonger, I sold my Kyosho SuperTen GP with Futaba 3DPF at only RM444.11, it’s a steal, lucky you dude. Originally there are three things I want to do with the money, 1. For my passion of great sound quality, I want to get myself a Creative XMOD for my notebook, 2. Something new for my 350D, be it a lens or a flashgun or 3. Save the money. Obviously the last one is the better and obviously it’s also the less fun one. After window shopping at MIR FTZ, Photokaki, Fotopages Malaysia, ShutterAsia and et cetera, decided to get myself the Tamron AF70-300mm F/4-5.6 LD Macro 1:2 after reading the review at http://www.amazon.com/. It’s a bit misleading though, after I’m back home only I realize that the actual model is Tamron AF70-300mm F/4-5.6 LD Macro 1:2 and not Tamron AF70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro 1:2 as advertised.
Last Saturday night, the night Shawal get kicked out from reality TV program called fantasy (fantasy and reality, which one dude?), we (nadiah included) went to NZ Curry house to meet brother Raddy, impatiently to test out the lens, eventually bought it later. Impatiently because it’s already 11:30, Raddy suggested us to meet on Monday night instead, but waiting for Monday means waiting for another 5 days until the weekend arrive. SMS Raddy about the possibility to meet on the same night, he’s OK with it, we met, I got myself the lens and few hundreds RM less in my pocket.
The lens focal length, 70mm-300mm on my APS-C sized sensor is approximately at 112mm to 480mm. The macro (1:2) works from 180mm to 300mm, taking close range photo a bit hassle or near impossible. This is not the IF model, so it extends when focusing and zooming. Fully extended, I’m feel like a paparazzi already. At 300mm, pretty much I can be little paparazzi >:)
At 70 mm.
Fully extended, and this without the lens hood which add another approx 3cm.
We initially want to play around with this new lens on Sunday, the mothers day, but it was rainy day, we went back home and eventually have to wait for another weekend after all. I’ll update with more samples later.
The first picture I took using this lens, at NZ Wangsa Maju, hand held at 70mm F/4 1/60sec ISO-1600.
The Eye at 209mm F/5 1/200 sec ISO-1600. Some PP applied.
Few more samples after the jump.
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Insyaallah nnt akan aku habiskan cerita PGLtM nih.