{"id":18446,"date":"2022-04-04T13:34:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T17:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=18446"},"modified":"2022-04-04T19:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T23:02:40","slug":"guest-contributor-tomd-photo-converting-from-a-mount-to-e-mount-on-the-70-300mm-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/04\/guest-contributor-tomd-photo-converting-from-a-mount-to-e-mount-on-the-70-300mm-zoom\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Contributor – TomD – Photo – Converting From A-Mount to E-Mount on the 70-300MM Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

TomD<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking of lenses, we were talking about lenses, weren\u2019t we? Ahh, I thought so\u2014-<\/p>\n

Anyway, back in the days of my Sony A mount cameras, one of my most productive lenses in terms of the real \u201ckeeper\u201d shots that it produced was a Sony G series 70-300. It was pretty slow with a maximum variable aperture of f3.5-5.6, but that didn\u2019t matter much because I used it almost exclusively outdoors with lots of light.<\/p>\n

What did matter is that it was extremely sharp and had a great bokeh (that soft blur in the out of focus areas of the picture). Any time I would be looking through my pictures of that time frame and saw one that I thought was particularly good, the EXIF date would show that was the 70-300 lens on a percentage of the GOOD shots that far exceeded the percentage of the time I used it.<\/p>\n

I got into the E mount Sony era in 2017 with a A7RII and added a A7III to it about year and a half later. While I was building a E mount lens collection, I bought a Sony LA-EA 4 lens adaptor to mount A type lenses to E type bodies so that I could use my old lenses.<\/p>\n

The adaptor worked to a certain extent to tie the 70-300 to those bodied but the auto focus was sluggish and not as accurate. The lens fell out of use and was used a time or two a year and yielding acceptable but not stellar results.<\/p>\n

I recently sold both the older Sony cameras and bought the latest Sony A7IV. When I tried my LE-AH 4 adaptor on the A7IV with the 70-300, I got nothing. Sony is apparently abandoning the older A series and a little research told me that the 70-300 lens does not and will never work with the A7IV or later bodies. Well.<\/p>\n

That left my existing E mount lens collection biased to the short side, the longest lens being 105 mm and I really needed a replacement to that lens. A direct replacement, a new version with the exact same optics as my old lens but in e mount costs around $1300 these days. I\u2019m retired now and don\u2019t spend $1300 without at least some research so I spent a couple of hours on google (whom I hate but use anyway).<\/p>\n

That search yielded a large number of reviews stating that the new Tamron 70-300 E mount is at least equal of the Sony version with one caveat. That being there in no in lens image stabilization. But that\u2019s okay because my A7IV has 5 axis in body stabilization, so in lens would be redundant. But here\u2019s the kicker: the Tamron cost $499 vs $1300 for the Sony.<\/p>\n

The Tamron arrived a couple of days ago. I really haven\u2019t have a chance to wring it out other than 40 or 50 snaps at stuff around the house, but it shows promise.<\/p>\n

Couple of examples below including a shot of the camera and lens. These shots are just out of the camera, not modified and not examples of picture that I would keep. But they do show the image quality of which the lens is capable in terms of sharpness, color and bokeh.<\/p>\n

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#3 a Bottlebrush Bush, seen these only in Florida. Just a microsecond after this shot, a Hummingbird flew into my field of vision, but only for only a half second. You snooze, ya loose.<\/p>\n

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The purpose of these shots is to demonstrate the lens’s potential, not artistic quality. I think it\u2019s hard to imagine the IQ (image qualiity) being much better. It certainly exceeds expectations of a \u201ccheap\u201d lens.<\/p>\n

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