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chromatic aberration and maintain sharpness throughout the zoom range. Tamron’s BBAR G2 coating reduces flare and ghosting in backlit scenes, while the design is built to deliver soft, attractive bokeh to help subjects stand out against the background. Autofocus is driven by Tamron’s VXD linear motor mechanism, which
Tamron has launched a 35- 100mm f/2.8 lens that extends
offers fast and precise performance for portraits and moving subjects. A minimum focusing distance of 22cm at the wide end allows creative close-ups. The lens features moisture-resistant sealing and a fluorine-coated front element to repel water and oil. A unified 67mm filter thread matches many of Tamron’s mirrorless zooms.
the reach of most standard zooms. The £799 35-100mm f/2.8 Di III VXD fits full-frame Sony E and Nikon Z mounts, is just 119.2mm long and weighs 565g. The optical construction comprises 15 elements in 13 groups, including XLD, LD and GM elements to control
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ZOOM IN The Tamron 35-100mm extends the focal length range compared to most f/2.8 standard zoom lenses
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Tamron shows its wireless link
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Full wireless control of compatible Tamron lenses is coming to smartphones via the Tamron Link, a compact 2g Bluetooth 5.4 adapter. Plugging into the lens’s USB-C port, the device works with the new Tamron Lens Utility Mobile Version 5.0, available for iOS and Android.
It allows remote adjustment of focus and aperture settings, setting of focus and iris markers, focus rotation angle, focus time-lapse, astro focus lock and night mode. The £60 gizmo works with 17 Tamron lenses, such as the 35-100mm f/2.8 Di III VXD. tamron.com
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DxO has extended its noise reduction technology to both Bayer and X-Trans sensors for the first time ever with the release of PureRaw 6. Previously limited to X-Trans cameras, XD3 now delivers enhanced detail extraction and cleaner high-ISO files across a far wider range of systems. Version 6 also introduces high- fidelity DNG compression, producing files up to four times smaller without Cleaner files for Bayer cameras
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BEFORE AND AFTER The latest DxO software cleans up Raw files from all cameras
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sacrificing Raw flexibility. New AI-powered sensor dust removal automatically cleans entire batches, while batch parallelisation speeds up
high-volume processing. DxO PureRaw 6 is available for MacOS and Windows from £120. dxo.com
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