Post by BuckSkin on Nov 7, 2017 18:01:00 GMT
I realize that you have probably already made your trip and back at home by now, but I wanted to share my lens opinion.
About two weeks after getting my wife our very first real camera (Christmas 2013), I had already figured out that the wrong lens was always the one that was on the camera; and, by the time we could get the lens switched, whatever we switched it for was long gone; then, moments after we switched the lens, we would be changing again.
Before Valentine's Day 2014 had arrived, I got her the newer version Sigma 18-250mm Macro zoom and I don't think it has been off of her camera since.
In July 2014, I found myself an identical second-hand DSLR camera on E-Bay that came already equipped with the later version Tamron 18-270mm.
While my Tamron took some impressive pictures, everything about her Sigma was better; quicker to achieve focus, sharper crisper focus, quieter; and, the one thing about her images that really stood out, when I barely zoomed in on my Tamron images, they tended to lose detail and sharpness quickly; whereas, on the other hand, we could zoom way in on anything that came from her Sigma and the sharpness and detail stayed together much better.
Then, the plastic focusing gear in my Tamron stripped out (a common problem with them from what I gather) and for the next two years every shot I took was manually focused; at first, that was no big deal; then, my eyes started this foolishness where they are always changing and what looked to be focused sharp as a tack would be anything but in focus when I got the images on the computer.
I was discarding more images than I was keeping; so, out of desperation, I bought a new Sigma 18-250 for my camera.
To make a long story short; if I were going on the trip of a lifetime and could only take one lens, it would be a Sigma 18-250mm.
Thanks for reading.
About two weeks after getting my wife our very first real camera (Christmas 2013), I had already figured out that the wrong lens was always the one that was on the camera; and, by the time we could get the lens switched, whatever we switched it for was long gone; then, moments after we switched the lens, we would be changing again.
Before Valentine's Day 2014 had arrived, I got her the newer version Sigma 18-250mm Macro zoom and I don't think it has been off of her camera since.
In July 2014, I found myself an identical second-hand DSLR camera on E-Bay that came already equipped with the later version Tamron 18-270mm.
While my Tamron took some impressive pictures, everything about her Sigma was better; quicker to achieve focus, sharper crisper focus, quieter; and, the one thing about her images that really stood out, when I barely zoomed in on my Tamron images, they tended to lose detail and sharpness quickly; whereas, on the other hand, we could zoom way in on anything that came from her Sigma and the sharpness and detail stayed together much better.
Then, the plastic focusing gear in my Tamron stripped out (a common problem with them from what I gather) and for the next two years every shot I took was manually focused; at first, that was no big deal; then, my eyes started this foolishness where they are always changing and what looked to be focused sharp as a tack would be anything but in focus when I got the images on the computer.
I was discarding more images than I was keeping; so, out of desperation, I bought a new Sigma 18-250 for my camera.
To make a long story short; if I were going on the trip of a lifetime and could only take one lens, it would be a Sigma 18-250mm.
Thanks for reading.