NikonGear'23
Gear Talk => Lens Talk => Topic started by: Pistnbroke on March 11, 2018, 10:00:40
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If any of you read Nikon Rumors you will be into this ....
so I buy the Tamron 100-400mm ..good price about £450 grey. Now if the tap in console did not exist I would be as happy as the proverbial pig in sh1t . I would put it on my camera ,do the fine focus at 400mm ,repeat on all 5 cameras and be happy. But no I go buy the tap in console and discover all those lovely numbers ... But no those only work on one of my cameras. for the others I must match a default value to the lens for 4 of my 5 cameras . This makes me very unhappy....do I go the default route or just sell the tap in and pretend it never existed ?
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In my experience with Tamron lenses, they work really well on Nikon bodies. I have tried many, and own one of them. I heard somewhere that Tamron actually pays to get certified from Nikon for Nikon's AF algorithms, not sure if it's true or not.
Anyway. I bought my Tamron 45mm VC from Ebay during a 20% off promotion, the package included a free tap-in console. I paid 399*0.8+40+17=376.2USD, $40 is postage and $17 is the robbery also known as exchange fee, I used the wrong card. I have a low rate one, oh well.
I tried the lens on my bodies, and it worked flawlessly, AF is extrenely fast and snappy for both far and close objects. I sold the tap-in console for $60 new. I only ended up paying $316.2 for the lens. $320 essentially for a fast, stabilised, superb 45mm. This is just unbeatable. Maybe I'm good at this stuff due to being Chinese and having a grandpa who started from buying low and selling high :P, and ultimately started a thriving business, go figure haha.
My suggestion is to just sell that thing if your lens performs perfectly. You can always dial in some in-camera tuning.
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I am getting great results from my 100-400 on a D850. It took about 5 minutes to dial it in by taking shots of a big ruler at a 45 degree angle. AF is much better than a Nikon 70-300 VR. Just stick the console in a closet in case you ever have to update the lens firmware.
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Good advice Ron ..I have a trip to the Somme in france in early april and will do some testing before I go and come to a conclusion...will let you all know .