in this video we are going to have a
look at the new super zoom lens from
Tamron which is the 28-200mm
f/2.8-5.6
Kia Ora! good morning everyone Richard Wong here! welcome back to the channel
Today we are going to have a look at the
new super zoom lens from Tamron this is
the 28-200mm f/2.8-5.6 this lens
is specially designed for the Sony
e-mount cameras and to do this review i
have also went and borrowed a copy of
the sony 24 - 240 from my friends at
Auckland camera center so that I can do
some direct head to head comparison between
these two lenses .Okay as usual let's
start and talk about the build quality and design
of these two lenses first the first
thing I noticed when I pick up these two
lenses instead terminal is quite a bit
lighter than the Sony. The Tamron is
around 576 gram while the Sony is 780gram
so quite a big difference
between these two lenses. The Tamron is
about maybe one third or so lighter than
the Sony. Build quality wise I feel the
Sony is a little bit better than the
Tamrom it feels a little bit more solid
but having said that they have both
quite plasticky compared to the more
expensive professional lenses having
said that there's one thing I quite
liked about the camera is that if you
look at the rear mount here they use
some more special kind of material here
for the rare man which not only make it
look more premium but I think it
probably would help reduce the lens for
a little bit which we're going to look
at a little later in this review in
comparison to the sony which just use
more very plastic very cheap kind of
plastic for the rear mount which is
typically what you see on most of the
consumer lenses in terms of the size the
two lenses are quite similar I guess the
biggest difference is the sony is quite
a bit wider or vector lens compared to
the tamara and the both lenses would
extend when you try to zoom in and when
they are both fully extended the height
is also very similar the sony is only
slightly taller than the Tamron
the sony has a 72 millimeter fund
filters red wow the Temne is
67 millimeter which is the same for all
the F 2.8 zoom lenses for this sony
email and also the f 2.8 prime lenses
for the iman are also 67 millimeter so
it is quite handy if you got more than
one of the lenses so that you can easily
share the filter between those lenses
one of the biggest difference between
these two lenses is the focal length
wrench with the sony it goes from 24
millimeter all the way to 240 millimeter
Wow with the Tamron it goes from 28mm to 200mm so the
Tamron doesn't go quite as why and also
the telephoto end is a little bit
shorter and to give you some idea what's
the actual difference here are four
different photos I shot with these two
lenses at the widest and the most
telephoto end so you can see with the 24
and the 28 is quite a bit of difference
and also the telephoto end the Sony can
go a little bit further to me personally
I don't mind too much that the telephoto
is a little bit shorter because I feel
like the camera these days the
resolution is so high you can always
just crop a little bit if you feel the
telephoto and it's not quite enough but
for the white end I feel the Sony with
this 24 min yn that's over some
advantage over the tamra like I said in
my recent Panasonic 2060 review I really
appreciate when the yn can go wider
because sometimes when the lens is not
wide enough and if you want to capture a
little bit wider it is a lot more hassle
you can take multiple photos and merge
them together but it's not quite as easy
as compared to you just crop the photo a
little bit but of course there are many
reasons why Tamron chose to go for 28
instead of 24 for example if you want to
buy the outer Y angle zoom lens which is
17 to 28 which I have done a review
check out the length somewhere I print
below if you buy those two lenses
together then it will give you a super Y
for calling French from 17 all the way
to 200 but then there is another big
reason or I should say a big advantage
with this
camera lenses that is maximum aperture
is f 2.8 at the wide end and at the
telephoto end is F 5.6 so maximum
aperture f28 on a super zoom lens is
something unheard of even at the
telephoto end F 5.6 is still quite a bit
better than most of the super zoom lens
in the market compare that with the Sony
it is F 3.5 at the wide end and F 6.3
and to telephoto and so if you look at
numbers it is about 1/3 to 1/2 stop
faster than the Sony depends on which
end you look at but just look at the
number it's just half the story if you
actually compare the maximum aperture at
the different focal lengths I put a
chart here that shows you the maximum
aperture of these two lenses as you
changing through the different focal
lengths you can see that the maximum
aperture for the Sony lens would
decrease quite quickly as soon as you
start to zoom in while with the Tamron
lens it managed to keep its maximum
aperture at larger value of the smaller
number for quite a bit longer compared
to the Sony lens if you look at the
chart you can see that at some of the
focal lengths the camera is like one
stop faster than the Sony so that makes
a huge difference if you want to take
photo and low light or if you want to
minimize the type of user you can bring
the background separate the foreground
object from the background
so almost one-stop faster is a huge
difference between these two very
similar size super zoom lens but there's
another thing that is missing from the
camera is that it doesn't have the
optical image stabilizer building into
the lens while the Sony it does have OSS
so it should give you better image
stabilization feature however most of
the latest Sony e-mount camera they do
have a in body image stabilizer so I was
quite curious to see actually how big is
the difference between these two lenses
one would purely depend on the cameras
in body image stabilizer while the other
one has the optical image stabilizer so
I shot 150 photos at
200mm focal length 50 of them using
the Tamron and 50 of them using the
Sony lens and another 15 with Tamron but
with the cameras in body image
stabilizer
turned off and I shall all the photos at
this shutter speed of 1/20 seconds
so 1/20 second at 200mm which is
pretty much like 1/10 of the normal safe
shutter speed that people would normally
recommend and not surprisingly with the
photo 50 photos they are shot with
without any image stabilization 50
photos only one of them I would consider
shot basically pretty much all the
photos shot at that very slow shutter
speed is unusable and when I turn on the
embody image stabilizer there are 50
photos that are shot with the Tamron
lens about 30 free photos I can't see
the shop so that is pretty good because
I got around 66% of success rate when I
should end such a slow shutter speed and
when I look at the result from the Sony
lens then I got 35 photos all of the 50
photos that I consider sharp so it is a
little bit better than the Tamron so
around 70% but a difference is actually
smaller than what I were expected so
maybe the lack of the optical image
stabilizer with the Tamron is not really
a big disadvantage if you compare it
with the Sony autofocus performance is
quite similar between these two lenses
the autofocus speed is reasonably fast
when you are shooting on the bright
sunlight and the operation itself is
also quite quiet but if you are shooting
indoor a very quiet indoor you may hear
the term own lens it does have a little
bit louder ticking noise when you are
doing autofocus but having said that the
difference is quite minor between these
two lenses and if you are shooting
outdoor you probably wouldn't hear any
auto focus noise at all the Tamron lens
seems to have a powerful go design or
very close to it at least while with the
sony lens and I change the focal length
from the wide end to the telephoto end I
noticed the focus poor wood
change quite a bit if you like to take
close-up photos with the tamarind you
can get the maximum magnification of 1:3.1 when you're shooting
at the wide end while with the sony the
maximum magnification is
1:3.7 so that is a little bit
lower than the terminal but Sony didn't
seems to specify and what focalin can
you achieve the maximum magnification
and from my own testing it seems like I
can get the maximum magnification when
I'm shooting at the telephoto end so
that is quite different to the Tamron
lens
okay now let's have a look at the image
quality and start from the image
sharpness at 28 million for life with
the Tamron lens if we look at the center
shamless the center Sharma's is already
excellent even at the maximum aperture
which is f 2 part a and if I stop down
to f/4
I think the contrast improve a little
bit but shamaness also just improved
very marginally if you stop down further
it doesn't really change much because
the lens was already very sharp at f/4
if you compare it with the Sony which
the maximum aperture is f/4 at twenty
eight mil look at the photos that shot
at the same aperture I think the center
cameras is very very similar now let's
look at the corner at 28 bill with the
Tamron at the maximum aperture f28 the
corner shamness is I think it's okay
stop down to f/4
will improve the sharpness quite a bit
and at F 5.6 then the corner shuttles
become excellent and now let's look at
the sony and f/4 the corner sharpness is
not good at all is quite soft and even
if I stop down to FA the corners
sharpness is still not very good and now
let's look at the result I got when
should add 200 you forego length with
the Tamron lens even when I should at
the maximum aperture have five on six I
think the center sharpness is already
very good so stopping down to f/8 would
only improve the centre shamless a
little bit and with the sony lens the
maximum aperture is now f
six pawn three at six point three the
center shamness is not too sharp even if
I stop down to f/8 it is still not very
good if you compare it with the Tamron I
think the Tama at F five point six is
still sharper than the Sony at f/8 and
now let's look at the corner with the
Tamron at five point six the corner is a
little bit soft if I stop down to UFA
then it becomes reasonably sharp and now
let's look at the result from the Sony
at the maximum aperture F six point
three the corner is really soft and even
when I stop down to you f/8 or even half
11 the corner still remained very soft
the result is really quite bad that I
actually went and redo the whole test
because I was not sure whether I got the
correct result or not but my second test
the result is pretty much the same so
yeah corner at the 200 mu with the Sony
is definitely not very good in terms of
distortion when I turn off the
distortion compensation from the camera
up the Tamron there is a little bit of
barrel distortion at the wide end and as
i zoom in then it becomes a bit of
pincushion distortion it's not terrible
but it's noticeable and when I turn on
distortion control and distortion it's
not really noticeable throughout the
whole focal length range with the Sony
lens
I just couldn't disable the distortion
compensation from the camera the option
is grayed out when I mount this Sony
lens on so with that enable compare
these two side-by-side you see virtually
no difference because they are both well
well corrected by the camera if you
shoot raw and use the Adobe software I
was told the lens profile for Adobe for
the camera lens is coming very soon
because the Tamron lens has a faster
maximum aperture throughout the whole
focal length wrench so when you are
shooting with the camera lens you could
dissolve the background more than the
Sony if you want you should at the
maximum aperture but in terms of the
bokeh quality maybe because both lenses
they both have the 7 curve aperture blade
design the actual quality
the bokeh is quite similar you can see
a bit of halo near the edge of the
bokeh and pokey itself is probably not
perfectly smooth but overall I think the
bokeh quality is OK for a super zoom
lens with the very large zoom range and
very complicated optical design lens
fair could be a big problem for super
zoom lenses but surprisingly both the
camera and Sony they both have very good
lens free air control no matter shooting
into the Sun or any bright light source
there is very minimal amount of lens
fair or ghosting but if I have to pick a
free night I would definitely give it to
you Tamara because with the Sony lens
sometimes you do get a bit of ghosting
like when you're shooting into the Sun I
could see a bit of purple-ish ghosting
and similar thing when I'm shooting at
nighttime and shooting into a bright
light I could see a little bit more
coasting with the Sony lens in terms of
vignetting at the 28 mil focal length
the Sony definitely has less noticeable
venting when compared to the Tamron
not too sure if it's because it has a
larger front element and larger front
filters right so it can help minimize
the venting at the Y end but yeah if you
look at these two photos both short and
f4 you can see that the sony has less
vignetting than the 10 long and now if
we look at the telephoto end when I'm
shooting at 200 mil for go length both
lenses has a little bit of Weiner Tang
when fitting at the maximum aperture but
when I stopped on to you f/8 then
vignetting is virtually not noticeable
with both lenses if you are a landscape
photographer and love to have Sun stars
in your landscape photos I would say
both lenses they don't give you very
beautiful sand style even if you stopped
on the aperture to your very small value
comparing the photos that I've shot at
the same aperture I say the Sun stuff
from the Tamron looks a little bit
better but on the other hand the sony
does have a bit of advantage because you
can stop down to f/25 while with the
Tamron we can only stop down to f/16
I remember when I bought my first DSLR I
was looking at buying him on 18-200
super zoom lens because back in those
days that was a very popular super zoom
lens because of its compact size and
good value for money and pretty decent
image quality and then Tamron released the 16-300 a couple years
later and then 18-400 so you can see the
trend is they are chasing for the bigger
and bigger focal length range but at the
same time the lens is also getting a bit
bigger and heavier but recently when
Tamron created zoom lenses for the Sony
e-mount cameras they seems to choose a
complete opposite strategy look at the
17 to 28 f/2.8 and 28-75 and then the
70-180 to buy lenses the focal length
range is not quite as wide as the other
competitor in the market but in return
they have a lens that is quite a bit
smaller lighter a little bit more
affordable while at the same time they
deliver very good image quality and they
use the same kind of philosophy to
create this time on 28 to 200 super zoom
lens and the result is a very compact
very lightweight and also affordable
lens but the most important thing is the
image quality is excellent the image
shamness is very good from the white and
also to the telephoto end and from
center all the way to the corner look at
my comparison photos with the sony you
can see sony is definitely not quite as
good especially if you don't get the
corner shaman's all the performance at
the telephoto end and remember the
Tamron also has faster aperture
throughout the whole focal length range
and some of the aperture is even one
stop faster so what that means is that
if you are taking photo in real world
the table you should be able to get
quite a bit better image quality because
you can shoot at faster aperture
compared to the sony and with the sony
you
have to stop down quite a bit if you
want to match the image quality of the
table so you'll be shooting at a slower
aperture that means you probably have to
bump up the ISO quite a bit which would
also have impact on the image quality
because of that I feel that hammer on 28
200 is almost the perfect travel lens I
say almost perfect because I do still
really wish the Tamron can go a little
bit wider to 24mm but look at the
result consider the size the price and
the image quality I feel this is one of
the compromise that I'm happy to accept
and if I really got a chance to travel
with this tamerlan's
I think what I will do is that I will
also pick up the Tamron 20 f/2.8 lens
as my secondary lens so I will use that
time on 20 minutes which is a very
compact and affordable primary for my
ultra wide-angle shots
