| Latest Review Posted | Tamron SP AF Di Macro (272E) 90mm F2.8
This lens is an amazing value when you buy it used. There are older version with model numbers 72e and 172e, but this one is 272e which supposedly is best for digital sensor.
Never mind the macro capabilities, this lens is also an amazing medium telephoto on crop sensor. Wonderful portraits, sometimes even too sharp. Colors are very nice and the contrast follows. Auto focus is very fast when you use the limiter, which will not allow you to focus closer than 45cm but that's what you want for a telephoto.
I did a lot of searching for and researching about what telephoto to get for nice portraits. Those lenses are very expensive, as there is no Pentax 85mm with autofocus below $1000. Closest to my budget was Samyang 85mm 1.4 (which is MF) but that lens is not sharp until 2.8, so you get some nice bokeh but if you want sharp, then you need to stop down to (guess what) F/2.8.
Macro is a very interesting and satisfying form of photography and it does require a lot of experimenting and learning until you start producing something really good.
With this lens you have both macro and a nice autofocus telephoto.
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