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Father's Day Gifts
With Father’s Day right around the corner, you have to start thinking about what would make dad really happy this year… another tie, a new lawn mower, a coffee mug??? How about something he will REALLY enjoy and use for years to come.
That’s exactly what you will get with the new Tamron 18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD lens. It’s the perfect time to get dad set with a lens for his Digital SLR camera that will take him from ultra wide-angle photos to amazing telephoto pictures. It’s the perfect vacation, family, and sports lens. Perfect for every dad.
I recently took the lens for a test drive to see how it would perform and I must say I was impressed. These are a few of the features I look for when testing a DSLR lens – How fast is the lens? How sharp are the photos? How does it handle contrast? How does it record color saturation? Does it have close-up capabilities?
The Tamron 18-270 performed well in all areas with the added bonus of being able to hand-hold lower light situations with their Vibration Compensation technology.
The Tamron 18-270mm is also the world’s lightest, most compact 15x zoom lens with super fast autofocus.
This year’s family vacation will have the best photo memories from 18mm wide-angle scenic shots to tight zoomed-in details of the trip. Photographing the kid’s sporting events will be easier than ever with stunning results using the Tamron lens zoomed to 270mm. It brings you right into the action while keeping everything crisp and sharp with the Vibration Compensation.
Moving subjects such as sports, rivers or waterfalls can take on a new feel when taken with slower shutter speeds. By using the len’s VC (Vibration Compensation), you can shoot at slower shutter speeds without being burdened by a tripod. The VC stabilizes the image making it easy to track moving objects like sports and expand your creativity with slower shutter speeds.
This lens boasts Tamron’s first standing wave ultrasonic motor system, PZD (Piezo Drive) for extremely smooth auto-focus. Whatever your situation, the PZD delivers smooth focusing resulting and sharp photos.
The photos coming out of the lens are sharp and crisp with details like a child’s eyelashes being defined in a portrait. Silhouettes are well defined with the lens handling both color and contrast.
At the 18mm range, you can get the camera close to your subject and see the beautiful expansive background around them. At the 270mm range you can shoot breathtaking portraits by zooming into your subjects and blurring out the background. This directs all of the attention where you want it in the photo.
The lens also has a minimum focusing distance of around 20 inches. This means that you can use it to make stunning macro photography shots. You can use the powerful zoom, and then physically move in closer to capture even small insects on a flower or the details of fruit in a bowl. It’s perfect for traveling as far as across the ocean or as near as your very own backyard.
If your dad is a photo buff and has a bunch of gear already, he will love the versatility of this one lens. If he’s a photo newbie and just getting started, he’ll love the way he can make amazing wide-angle, telephoto, and macro photos like a pro. Either way, it’s the perfect Father’s Day gift!
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