Author Topic: Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-f/4  (Read 890 times)

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Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-f/4
« on: August 07, 2018, 08:59:34 »
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Re: Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-f/4
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2018, 16:34:19 »
It could be a decent lens, but personally, I dislike the implementation of manual focus on the Tamron zooms.  The zoom and focus rings are reversed in position from where they *should* be, and the focus ring is made flush with the lens body---two bad choices IMO.
EDIT: The zoom and focus rings are not 'reversed'...my mistake. Thanks, Roland!
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Roland Vink

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Re: Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-f/4
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2018, 22:43:20 »
The focus ring is at the front, zoom ring behind ... that used to be the "normal" position. Many Nikon zooms have the focus and zoom rings in reverse position, but there are still quite a few such as 14-24, 16-35, 18-35, 24-70, 70-200/4 and many of the DX zooms with the traditional layout.

Maybe worse is that the focus ring on Tamron lenses usually focuses the opposite direction from Nikkors, although they zoom in the same direction.