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Tamron 50-400mm Lens Review: A Big Update for Nikon

Chris Gampat
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Last updated on 08/29/2024
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Last Updated on 08/29/2024 by Chris Gampat

Today, Tamron announced a new update to their lens lineup. They’re introducing the Tamron 50-400mm f4.5-6.3 Di III lens for Nikon Z mount and you’ll be able to purchase it on September 19th, 2024. The lens is a great one for those who want a versatile optic but that don’t need to shoot photos at a wider-angle. Instead, you can get as close as you really need to wildlife. Using Nikon’z DX crop mode on their full-frame cameras, photographers can make the 400mm reach out to what’s essentially 600mm field of view. Combine it with a high megapixel camera option from Nikon, and you’ll have an excellent birding lens. To mark this new release from Tamron, we’ve updated our full review of this lens.

Here’s the pertinent update to our review. You can read the entire thing here at this link.

Update August 2024

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In August of 2024, Tamron announced their 50-400mm lens to be available for Nikon Z mount. If I’m being my honest self, Nikon and Tamron are a union that keeps giving gifts to one another while embodying a chemistry that you’d want to see on the big screen. Nikon continues to work on itself and wants to prove that they’re a camera system that needs to be in your hands. Sure, it’s taken Nikon a while to open up its heart, but that’s all the more reason to celebrate. At the same time, Tamron gives Nikon the moisture-laden moss pole it needs to grow new leaves while receiving a support system from a system that wants you to forget about Sony and Canon.

And together, they’re helping photographers capture beautiful images. Using the Nikon Z6 III, the Tamron 50-400mm lens can use the camera’s subject detection to understand where a bird might be in the scene. It can do this very well in the all-auto point mode — providing that there’s nothing blocking the field of view of the bird.

It’s when there are branches in the way and such that the Z6 III can have some trouble. But even then, it’s still not doing a bad job when mated with the Tamron. Together, the two can give birth to beautiful images.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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