Comments on: Picking the Best 24-70mm Lens by WOMP

By: krokoxp

krokoxp — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:49:00 +0000

I have to say I liked allot the review. It was the only review I could find Tamron vs Nikon and it was made simple and easy to get the point, if and idiot like me could understand any one can.

I am going to buy a 24-70 the review is making me think real well in what lens I should buy. Tamron or Nikon.

The Tamron give the Optical Image Stabilization that’s real nice, I will not shoot video and I really don’t know for photos if the Stabilization is that a big win, but it’s also nice to have this feature if in the future I need to shoot video I will not have to spend more money in any lens. The price in Europe the difference is 430€ (+/- 535USD) the life it’s real hard and any money you can save better. The Nikon the quality it’s great the lens it’s more then tested and should not give any problems and in such investment do you want to take any risks??
That’s my dilemma.

By: James

James — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:38:00 +0000

His swing is sharper than the Canon

By: Mike Rotman

Mike Rotman — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 04:34:00 +0000

I’m pissed that you would try to ruin a perfectly good baseball bat on some lenses. those are made to hit baseballs and you could end up splintering the bat. Kids are starving in the world, please don’t waste a good piece of wood again.

By: Chris Hoffmann

Chris Hoffmann — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:11:00 +0000

I’m not sure if a baseball bat could actually destroy one of these lenses so easily. Just today I had a 200+ lb farmboy from Wisconsin bulldozer over me while holding a 7D with 24-105 mounted to the front. He hit me dead on and the lens took the full force of the collision, well the lens and my backside as he toppled over me. We both went slamming to the Camp Randall astro turf at full HS football speed. Scratches abound, and the battery grip and lens hood were toast, but lens took all this w/o any problems. I tend to think all of these lenses are manufactured to this level of durability and do not believe one simple swing of the bat could take them out so easily. But, I could be wrong.

By: John Pesina

John Pesina — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:26:00 +0000

I went through 3 tamron 24-70′s and only one didn’t give me lens recognition errors, but it did have focusing issues from time to time. The other two would intermittently just stop being recognized, tested on 2 bodies, same issues.

As for corner sharpness and coloring, it was a noticeable difference when I went to Nikkor, my colors out of the lens in raw just looked better, and the detail on faces was more crisp, and I get less of a chromatic aberration in the corners but I usually place all my subjects in the sweet spot anyway. Try shooting faces in mixed lighting, Nikkor performs better.

By: lagged2death

lagged2death — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:18:00 +0000

Very entertaining video all around.These guys have done some “equipment smashing” in other videos that was obviously (on close examination) faked with some simple, clever editing tricks. This one is better done than some of them, but I’m confident that no useful equipment was harmed in the making of this video.

By: Javier Solsona

Javier Solsona — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:25:00 +0000

Added Mr Good and WOMP to my ignore list.
Pretty sad that they feel the need to destroy gear in order to get any kind of viewer-ship.

By: KasumiY

KasumiY — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:14:00 +0000

Didn’t shatter as bad as the Canon or Sigma.

By: Kevin Good

Kevin Good — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:53:00 +0000

Thanks John. Likewise I think one of these will be finding a permanent home on my D800.

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:29:00 +0000

OOOOOH. Right in the irony.