Tamron lens – Shutterxpose

Photography 101 Workshop Season 3 concludes on a high note

Guru Hegde — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:08:13 +0000

ShutterXpose concluded its season 3 of Digital Photography 101 workshop on a high note. The workshop was held at the recently upgraded MAS Boardroom at the IBIS Hotel with the state of art audio/video system on Friday 29th April 2016. The workshop was sponsored by Tamron Lens and Naser Mohamed Al-Sayer Communications Communication, the official dealer of Tamron, Canon, Steiner and Vanguard products in the State of Kuwait.

Mr. Salman Al-Basha, the Product Manager representing our sponsor introduced the participants about the company and Tamron lenses in particular. Tamron lenses have won many awards among the prestigious EISA awards. Tamron Kuwait offers 5 years International Warranty on all it’s lenses at a very competitive price. Tamron produces Di and Di II lens for both full frame and crop sensor camera bodies and are available for most of the popular camera mounts. Their most top selling 90mm macro f/2.8 Di VC USD; 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD; 70-200mm Di VC USD and 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD lenses were on display for the participants at the venue.

ShutterXpose has been conducting workshops from it’s inception in 2011, they are generally known for their high quality course contents and detailed explanations. The participants were dynamic personalities representing multiple nations working in different background yet with a common passion to pursue Photography as their hobby. The workshop also witnessed few students who wished to continue their hobby along with their professional career in the future. The workshop was targeted towards novice, beginners and amateur to provide them not only with basics but enough of knowledge to carry on to the intermediate level.

Each of the participants were awarded with attendance certificate at the end of the workshop. The participants shall receive special discounts on presentation of the workshop tag card on the purchase of products from Tamron.

ShutterXpose Photography extends their gratitude to their Team leaders, Tamron Kuwait for being the official sponsor, Naser Mohamed Al-Sayer Comm. and IBIS Kuwait for the support and making this workshop yet again a great success.

Images from the event.

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Camera Lens Abbreviations Explained

Guru Hegde — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:22:40 +0000

Every Camera lens manufacturers use general acronyms, abbreviations and terminology to best identify lens characteristics and its overall performance. At times they are confusing and as an amateur photographer you would have a daunting task to choose from.

I’ve listed below few lens brands with their native abbreviations and a short description. Hope this helps.

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Deal on Tamron Lens

Guru Hegde — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:42:22 +0000

AAB International Photographic Co. is coming up with yet another offer on DSLR Camera lens and this time it’s the Tamron. Tamron is a Japanese company famous for thier optical lens and provides cheaper 3rd party solutions to most camera brands. AAB has been giving photographers a real treat and value for thier money, their last offer was on Sigma lens and they ran out of stock due to huge popularity and tempting offer. AAB is yet again having a 1 day deal offer on Tamron lens on Thursday 3rd May 2012. I would advice you to visit thier Shamiya outlet as they tend to have more collection.

I have never owned a Tamron lens, so wouldn’t be able to comment on the optics of the lens. Please check the link below from dpreview.com on couple of popular Tamron lens to have an idea of these optics.

Tamron SP AF 10-24 F3.5-4.5 Di II [link]

Tamron AF 18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC [link]

Tamron SP AF 70-200mm F2.8 Di LD [link]

You can check AAB facebook page for more information [here]

Image Credit: AAB

Update: Price List and Comparison

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