Tamron Adaptall 2

[@mistergiovanni7183]

The adaptall 2 system was a great idea. I still use an SP90mm f2.5 manual lens with macro and it has impressive sharpness and color reproduction on my D700.

[@28allday]

That’s a really really good lens I have one and I also use it for portraits as well

[@luzr6613]

I'm not a gear-head, but i really love your channel - great info and a really engaging delivery. So, thank-you. I'd wanted a Tamron SP for several years, specifically the 90mm you show here. Last week i found one in a 2nd-hand shop, brand new in it's immaculate leather case. I doubt that it had ever been on a camera. The box had NZ$49 on it - about GBP23. I took it to the counter and was charged NZ$29 - GBP14. A few weeks ago i'd bought a camera i'd wanted for 20 years - an Olympus E-1. I paid NZ$400 for it and it looks exactly as you would expect from a camera that has fired off 29 frames in it's life - twenty-nine! I have plenty of native 4/3 glass because my 'beach camera' is an E-5, but i'm going to use the E-1 as a proxy film camera with vintage manual glass. I've shot some frames with Takumar primes (i use these on a K-1 along with Pentax digital zooms) and am really pleased with the results. What i don't have are any vintage zooms. I'm curious as to your views on the Tamron SP zooms? There seems to be a wide range of opinions 'out there', but few make explicit the type of look they are trying to achieve. I'm wanting to get the little E-1 as close as i can to 'filmic'... away from the hyper-real sharpness that contemporary glass can give. What do you think? Kind regards from NZ.

[@28allday]

Thanks for your comment if you want to find out about zoom and Tamron glass go here www.adaptall-2.com. and look at the SP section from my own person use the SP 35-80 F2.8-3.8 is pretty special ( I have 2 ) and also the 24-48 F3.5 -3.8 is fantastic ..hope that helps .....BTW the 90mm is an amazing lens

[@leehaze1]

Nice video! Some lenses I haven't seen before.

[@Magnetron692]

Hi, many thanks! I got some Tamron Adaptall 2 glass: The 2.5/28 mil, the 2.5/90 mil, and the 8.0/500 mil. The latter is really impressive for a mirror lens. I didn't expect this image quality. It is the revised version. All lenses are great performers on my Nikon Z6 and my older analogue film cameras. Have a nice day! Best wishes from nearby Stuttgart, Germany, Ralf

[@28allday]

Great to hear!

[@photonfantastic]

I had no idea that this was possible. Thank you for educating me. You’ve convinced me of the utility and cost-effectiveness of owning only a single collection of lenses that can be adapted to multiple different makes of camera bodies. However, I shoot Leica R cameras FOR the Leica R lenses. I wouldn’t dream of mounting other glass on these cameras. To me, that would defeat the purpose. I positively want the Leica look and it’s the lens that gives it to me, not the camera body.

[@28allday]

I totally agree on the glass with the Leica .But I think the adaptalls give you a good chance to try an R camera out and see if you feel it right for you then you can commit to buying the lense ..at some point I may pick up a 28 or 35 for mine but I have few Zeiss I would like before I do that …the Leica R glass has gone up in cost due to it being very useful on video cameras so it quite a financial commitment, adaptall give you the opportunity to try before you buy as it were … anyway thanks for your comment

[@jocknarn3225]

I hadta mount a Tamron CT-135/2.8 with its Pentax Adaptall M42 screw-mount to an M42-Kmount adaptor 2 the MESuper/MX/LX bodies. It's like a return to ones Meccano childhood. The Adaptall-2 lenses r more straight-forward .. but yeah, u get to try lots of interesting glass. Even here in Oz, the Tamrons can b cheap as chips .. & often in ready to use condition.

[@marklawson8346]

Hi Gavin I couldn’t agree more I have 6 different tampon lenses which I bought for my film camera back in the 80s and I’m still using them on my Nikon d700 and still going strong Great video

[@28allday]

they are great lenses ...watch out for that spell check on the there name however :-)

[@ohjajohh]

I have the exact same lens, but still haven't tried it yet. I got it when I bought someone's camera/lenses collection

[@ianhand5006]

I have the 17mm, 28mm, 24-48mm, 35-80mm, 28-80mm, 135mm and the 300mm AD2 lenses. The 17mm and the 35-80mm are both great lenses. I no longer use the 28 because I’ve got the Nikkor 28mm f2.8 Ai-s lens which lives on my D200 and gives me the equivalent focal length of 42mm. I manly shoot Minox subminiature cameras these days, because I enjoy a challenge.

[@randallstewart1224]

Historically, I've always owned/used Nikon F system and Nikkor lenses. I got into the Tamron Adaptall 2 lens system because it offered lenses which I would rarely use at a significantly cheaper price than Nikon. If you stay with the "SP" line of Tamron lenses, you give up little if any performance to the equivalent Nikkors. The 35-80mm zoom he shows here is one of only two manual zooms I've every acquired. It may be the best zoom in this focal range every made. There is a contemporary 70-210mm zoom (very popular type in the day) which is arguably the best of type as well, and that's against any other maker. What I most appreciate about the SP lens line is that Tamron offered some lenses no one else ever made. The 17mm was almost unique in its day and a very good optic. Move on 20 years, and ultra-wide lenses (faster than 20mm) are a dime a dozen, but it still hangs on with the newer Sigmas, if not the modern design and glassed Nikkors, etc. Who else ever offered a 300mm Macro lens with floating element design? Most of these lenses are cheap, used today, but are still an optical bargain. One note: If shopping, remember that the Adaptall and Adaptall-2 systems are totally incompatible. The similarity of name and function can be confusing. Nice video.

[@28allday]

I,m going to do a video soon about zooms and the 35-80mm will feature a fair bit as its an amazing thing ...I,m not sure if you ever managed to pick up the Tamron 90mm F2.5..its quite incredable thing...one of the sharpest lens I have ever seen ..any way thanks for the comment

[@randallstewart1224]

@@28allday For many years, I had a Vivitar Series 1 105mm 2.5, which is quite rare these days and on a par with the Tamron 90mm 2.5. When my Series 1 was stolen a few years ago, I replaced the with the then current version of the Tamron 90mm 2.5 macro in auto-focus. (No one uses auto-focus in a macro function, but it was what was the latest version.) I have used it very little, but everything indicates that it is still about as good as a macro lens gets.

[@julesfisher3551]

I have always wondered why Tamron has not done this with digital lenses. Which AD-2 lenses do you think are the best?

[@28allday]

I think the interfaces got to complicated with auto focus/metering /aperture control etc for them to do modern lenses ....my favourite AD-2 are the 28mm F2.5 and also the sp 24 48mm zoom.....but the real stand out lens is the SP 90mm f2.5 that thing is incredible