One afternoon back in 1994 a sales rep dropped by the newspaper, told me to sell all my other lenses, and promptly handed me a new Tamron Adaptable-II 28-200mm f3.8-5.6 lens. It was a compact lens, weighing just 508-grams, and it did cover most of my working range, but it was two stops slower than my usual lenses and its minimum focus distance was only 2.1 metres!
To amateur photographers, the new Tamron 28-200mm was a superzoom but for professional photographers the lens had too many design compromises, from distortion and chromatic aberration through to a lack of overall sharpness. I didn’t swap my lens kit, however, superzooms have improved a lot in recent years and Tamron’s latest offering could
