Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III review
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The following images were taken with the Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III lens mounted on a 42MP Sony A7R II camera. The images are RAW files developed in Lightroom 12.0.1/CRAW 15.0 from RAW to Adobe Color profile with Adobe’s lens profile compensating distortions but not vignetting. Noise-reduction is set to 0, sharpening to 50/0.5/36/10, with no extra tone, color, or saturation adjustment. I only did the occasional exposure compensation in post-processing.

The individual exposure details are stated for each image. All of my high-resolution Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III sample images are available to download in their original formats for analysis at Flickr. These files are for personal evaluation only and cannot be used in another publication or website without permission.

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106655

1/100, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106564

1/400, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_20f2-8_106566

1/800, 20mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, large original available at f2.8f4.0f5.6f8.0

Tamron20-40f2-8_30f2-8_106574

1/640, 30mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, large original available at f2.8f4.0f5.6f8.0

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106570

1/640, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, large original available at f2.8f4.0f5.6f8.0

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106673

1/30, 40mm, f2.8, 1000 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106683

1/30, 40mm, f2.8, 1250 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_28f2-8_106681

1/30, 28mm, f2.8, 1250 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_20f2-8_106677

1/30, 20mm, f2.8, 800 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_20f2-8_106670

1/30, 20mm, f2.8, 640 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106669

1/30, 20mm, f2.8, 500 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_20f2-8_106648

1/400, 20mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, large original available at f2.8f4.0f5.6

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106645

1/125, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, large original available at f2.8f4.0f5.6

Tamron20-40f2-8_21f2-8_106668

1/30, 21mm, f2.8, 500 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106667

1/30, 40mm, f2.8, 500 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_25f2-8_106591

1/250, 25mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106592

1/250, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106581

1/250, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_26f2-8_106582

1/160, 26mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_25f2-8_106671

1/30, 25mm, f2.8, 1000 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106663

1/30, 40mm, f2.8, 1000 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_26f2-8_106664

1/30, 26mm, f2.8, 1000 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106654

1/250, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_20f2-8_106661

1/400, 20mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106660

1/250, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_26f2-8_106675

1/30, 26mm, f2.8, 320 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106680

1/30, 40mm, f2.8, 3200 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_33f2-8_106666

1/30, 33mm, f2.8, 800 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106641

1/40, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_35f5-6_106651

1/30, 35mm, f5.6, 160 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106579

1/200, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_20f2-8_106580

1/250, 20mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106585

1/1000, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106589

1/125, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106659

1/80, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_20f2-8_106658

1/125, 20mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106594

1/1600, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

Tamron20-40f2-8_40f2-8_106679

1/30, 40mm, f2.8, 100 ISO, Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Di III; click image for 4k version, here for large original

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