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Tamron Prime lenses

The quality of prime lenses has always surpassed zooms, yesterdays good primes will often beat today's zooms. Tamron Adaptall lenses offered photographers hardware independence on manual focus cameras. You can use these lenses on nearly all manual focus cameras independent of make, also many of todays Digital cameras.
Today these lenses are going for peanuts, some are superb others are good. The illustration below was taken on a Tamron 90mm 2.8 SP.
The lenses to keep an eye out for are the Adaptall SP range which was targeted towards serious amateur and professional photographers.

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Tamron Adaptal & SP Prime Lense resource list

Incredibly cheap on the second hand market, the Tamron SP range is designed to provide superior performance. Suited to advanced amateurs and professionals. The adaptal2 range are not up to the same performance specifications, but stopped down a couple of stops and they are still very useful for certain applications typically portrait etc. However one the key advantages with working with these lenses is that you have a certain amount of hardware independence. Buy a differing mount and you can fit the lens to a different body. Which are available for incredably cheap prices. The web site Adaptall-2.com

Adaptall-2.com: Great resource for Tamron adaptal Lenses. This is the home page link, below are some specific links.
Tamron SP Adaptall-2 17mm F/3.5 Model 51B: Review from Adaptal-2.com :Tamron SP Adaptall-2 17mm F/3.5 Model 51B --- An excellent super wide angle lense. I used it predominantly last year on the nikon D50. It Worked exceptionally well, the effective 24mm focal length retained the depth of field of the 17mm allowing stunning shots. See images below. More to follow ---
Tamron Adaptal2 28mm F2.5: Evaluation -- Tamron adaptal 2 -- 28mm F2.5

Digital trial: Nikon D50
The 28mm focal length translates to 42mm when fitted to a Nikon digital body, the APS size digital sensor gives a 1.5 magnification to the focal length. However you retain the depth of field of the 28mm this is a great advantage. The 42mm focal length is a really nice, typical of rangefinder cameras, it allows that little extra context in the images. slightly less formal than the 50mm, a social lens.
Tamron adaptal2 90mm F2.8 macro: Top Lense - Tamron SP Adaptall-2 90mm F/2.5 Model 52B -A highly regarded lense, available in the early 2.5 varient to todays 90mm digitally coated design. The earlier F2.5 was a 1:2 macro, while the 2.8 gives a full 1:1 macro. The earlier F2.5 needs an extension tube or a x2 converter to give a full 1:1 magnification. - More information to follow!!!

Intresting review on maco lenses http://www.nnplus.de/macro/Macro100E.html
Tamron adaptal2 200mm F 3,5: Tamron Adaptall-2 200mm F/3.5 Model 04B - A very compact Lens, with good close focus ability, A very useful lens. Requires to be stopped down a couple of stops for optimum performance. See Images Below !!
Tamron adaptal2 500mm F8 mirror: Tamron SP Adaptall-2 500mm F/8 Model 55BB

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Tamron Adaptal & SP Zoom lense resource list

Zooms are not an area. are a class of lense that traditionally I have not used. However If you feel the need, there are some of the cream of the crop listed below. The two that stand out from the crowd for me are the 35-80 and 80-200 F2.8

Tamron SP Adaptall-2 24-48mm F/3.5-3.8 Model 13A: Model 13A Compact Super-Wide Zoom
24~48mmF/3.5-3.8Compact Super-Wide
Zoom Tamron SP 24-48mm F/3.5-3.8 Model 13A:
Tamron SP Adaptall-2 28-80mm F/3.5-4.2 Model 27A: Model 27A Compact CF Macro Zoom
28~80mmF/3.5-4.2Compact CF Macro Zoom
Tamron SP 28-80mm F/3.5-4.2 Model 27A: This lens definitely is an above average performer within its class even when compared to OEM lenses of the same era. Optimal optical performance is F/8 to F/11
Tamron SP Adaptall-2 35-80mm F/2.8-3.8 Model 01A: Model 01A High Speed CF Macro Compact Zoom
35~80mmF/2.8-3.8High Speed CF Macro Compact
Zoom Tamron SP 35-80mm F/2.8-3.8 Model 01A: Tamron's SP 35-80 F/2.8-3.8 zoom lens is, without question, the best zoom lens ever manufactured within its class and price point. The
Tamron SP Adaptall-2 70-210mm F/3.5 Model 19AH: Model 19AH CF Tele-Macro Super Zoom 70~210mm F/3.5CF Tele-Macro Super Zoom Tamron SP 70-210mm F/3.5 Model 19AH: In my opinion, and for several reasons, this is the best 70-210 zoom lens ever designed and manufactured. Overall somewhat above average performance within it
Tamron SP Adaptall-2 80-200mm F/2.8 LD Model 30A: Model 30A Fast-Aperture Telephoto Zoom Lens
80~200mmF/2.8Fast-Aperture Telephoto Zoom
Lens Tamron SP 80-200mm F/2.8 LD Model 30A: This is an absolutely superb optical design which features a three element focus group incorporating one low dispersion (LD) element, plus a

Tamron Images SP 17mm F3.5, SP 90mm F2.8 & Adaptal11 200mm F4.6

Images shot on the Tamron sP17mm & Adaptal 200mm

Additional Resources

Mirror Lenses - how good? Tamron 500/8 SP vs Canon 500/4.5L: Mirror lenses vs. refractive lenses
Matt's Classic Cameras: Tamron Adaptall-2 System: Classic Cameras - review of the Adaptal mount.
Manual lenses with EOS cameras: Complete instructions on how to use manual-focus lenses with Canon EOS cameras. Often called stop-down metering, this process allows older lenses built for non-EOS cameras to be used successfully with EOS gear. Also includes some information on attaching telescopes to EOS cameras using T-mount adapt
Dyxum forums (Tamron lens): Moderated forum devoted to Konica Minolta,
Discussion on tamron adaptal lenses
Teleconvete review: Teleconverters and Multipliers with the Canon EOS system. A set of evaluations with the Tamron X1.5 converter and 2X converters on primes and zooms .

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Myrle-Beach-Photography May 25, 2010 @ 2:13 pm | delete

This is a great lens. Very nice photos. If anyone is in the myrtle beach area, come check me out at Myrtle Beach Photography

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Dave Apr 2, 2008 @ 2:01 am | delete

Excellent info! I just bought a Pentax K100d and would love to acquire a few tamron manual focus lens for it. Thanks!!