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Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD

Source:   Stopping down to f/5.6 brings vignetting at the edges under control Sony A7R III, 1/500sec at f/5.6, ISO 100  

It was only a matter of time before the popularity of Sony's Alpha 7 series started to influence third-party lens manufacturers. At the beginning of the year, Tamron released the 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD – the first third-party standard zoom for Sony's full-frame mirrorless range.

Until recently, users of the Sony Alpha 7 series have had the choice of four standard zoom lenses, excluding those that can be mounted via an adapter such as Sigma's MC-11. There's the basic Sony FE 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS (£395), the popular FE 24-70mm f/4 ZA OSS Vario-Tessar Carl Zeiss T* (£749) and the sensational Sony FE 24-105mm f/4 G OSS (£1,199), all of which benefit from optical steady shot (OSS). We must not forget the ludicrously

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