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Customer Digital SLR Lens Reviews
Much Better Than Expected - A SLR Camera Lens,
This is a very nice all-in-one travel lens. Before taking it on vacation I carefully compared it to my Canon 17-85mm IS and 70-300mm IS lenses when mounted on a 20D body. The Tamron 18 250 becomes surprisingly sharp if stopped down one stop from wide open at any focal distance, with equal or better sharpness than the 17-85. From 18-50mm even 1/3 stop down produces exc
Tamron 18-250mm Gets My Vote,
I teach digital photography at our local community college. I bought this Tamron lens for my new Pentax K 10D SLR after reading several reviews. I’m not in a position to technically evaluate this tamron penlax lens as professional reviewers can so my comments are from the perspective of a user. I leave to the professional reviewers to test and assess lens optical characteristics and quality.
I love this SLR lens because it allows me to shoot spontaneously. Although I have the 18-55mm kit lens that came with my K 10D camera, this lens is always on my camera. With it on my K 10D I can cover the range from wide angle (28mm) to EF telephoto (375mm) without loosing time to make a lens change; it’s always ready. Coupled with the K 10D built-in image stabilization, I feel comfortable taking handheld long zoom shots down to 1/20 sec and wide angle shot to less than 1/10 sec. For me this is the ideal travel/event lens. It is the lens-camera combination to capture the still and moving images as I did during my grandson’s birthday party.
What about quality? Prints are my quality measure and I am more than satisfied. I know this lens is not pro glass but neither does it have a corresponding price. For me it’s performance is very acceptable. I also like its compact size and relative light weight. On my K 10D this two and one-half pound total package is easy to handle and carry all day.
