12-18-2016, 08:43 AM
Just some observations from my short experience with the Sport; and comparisons with the Tamron G2.
It's just plain heavy at 3.16 Kgs. (with the 288 gm hood) and not well balanced with the heavy front element + hood.
Large difference in balance when zooming on a gimbal mount.
It's vignetting is much stronger than the Tamron.
It's aperture drops quicker than the Tamron, at 200mm the sport is already at F5.3 and continues to drop earlier all through the range. Strange with the Sport's monster front element.
Minimum focus distance G2.... 2.2 meters... Sport .... 2.6 meters
Better bokeh with the Sport with less onion rings.
The Tamron G2 (grey market) is €50 more than what I payed for the Sport.
The Tamron is a Kg less and better in the hand both in weight and balance.
Both are now sort of weather sealed.
The arca tripod foot is removable with the G2 and it's becomes 1.9 Kgs.
But the Sport is just a beautiful built beast!
Reports are that the G2 is now as sharp as the Sport or sharper in the center but less so at the edges, but with the D500 you don't use the edges.
There's nothing like a de-centered lens to wound you when you suffer severely from LBA, but man, does that wound heal up quick when you get refunded!
I'm still not fully decided but I feel a G2 coming on!
It's just plain heavy at 3.16 Kgs. (with the 288 gm hood) and not well balanced with the heavy front element + hood.
Large difference in balance when zooming on a gimbal mount.
It's vignetting is much stronger than the Tamron.
It's aperture drops quicker than the Tamron, at 200mm the sport is already at F5.3 and continues to drop earlier all through the range. Strange with the Sport's monster front element.
Minimum focus distance G2.... 2.2 meters... Sport .... 2.6 meters
Better bokeh with the Sport with less onion rings.
The Tamron G2 (grey market) is €50 more than what I payed for the Sport.
The Tamron is a Kg less and better in the hand both in weight and balance.
Both are now sort of weather sealed.
The arca tripod foot is removable with the G2 and it's becomes 1.9 Kgs.
But the Sport is just a beautiful built beast!
Reports are that the G2 is now as sharp as the Sport or sharper in the center but less so at the edges, but with the D500 you don't use the edges.
There's nothing like a de-centered lens to wound you when you suffer severely from LBA, but man, does that wound heal up quick when you get refunded!
I'm still not fully decided but I feel a G2 coming on!