Harry's Blog

I picked up the Tamron 10-24mm wide angle lens today to replace the Sigma 10-20mm I stupidly sold some months ago.

I decided to go for the Tamron due to the extra 4mm at the long end which means for me that'll get more use on the camera than if it was merely very wide angle only.

My first impressions of the lens are strong, it seems well built and is quick to focus. As I suspected the 24mm is very usuable indeed for more general photography - it's the equivelent of 38mm on my Canon EOS 50D.

Meanwhile at 10mm it's very wide indeed and vignetting and chromatic abberation are well controlled. I do see a little of the latter but it's easily fixed with Canon's Digital Photo Professional or DXO Optics Pro.

So far so good. I'll have a more detailed review once I put the lens through its paces pointing at some more interesting views than our back garden.