Tamron AF 2880mm f/3.55.6 Aspherical Lens for Canon

So far, so good!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I bought this lens as a temporary replacement to the lens that came with the camera. And, so far, it has worked wonderfully!(though I’ve noticed the response a little slow on one shot – I hope it was a fluke!) … The real test is coming in the next few weeks where I will be taking over 500 pictures over a 2 day period, If my opinion changes, then I’ll EDIT this.

Great Lens Great Price
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’m not a professional photographer but this lens works great for me. I love it! and would recommend to anyone looking for a great product at an affordable price

Tamron Autofocus 28-80mm
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Fair is fair, and $50 bucks for a lens gets you a $50 lens. Great starter for someone getting into SLRs. Won’t give you the greatest pictures ever, but for shooting snapshots of the kids on vacation, you really can’t beat this.

Nice lens, not excellent quality
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I bought this lens that came in a package deal with the Canon Rebel 2000 and the Tamron 100-300mm f/5-6.3. This is the lens that I use 90% of the time, and it has held up very well. The pictures come back very sharp and the quality of the prints are very good at most focal lengths. However, there are a few things I should note about this lens that I’m not too pleased with.

1) The autofocus system is a little slow and rather noisy.

2) The zoom operates in an odd way. Most zoom lenses are shortest at the lowest focal lengths, and extend at the higher focal lengths. This lens,however, is shortest at about 50mm and gets longer for both 28mm and 80mm. It’s kind of an odd setup, and it has led to a small problem. If I have the focus set to infinity or near it, and have it on autofocus, the zoom ring is sticky, or hard to move when I get to 28mm. If I have the same setup but put the lens on manual focus, rotating the zoom cuff will actually rotate the focus ring a small amount, until it is away from infinity. Now I don’t know if this happens eventually to all of these lenses, or just mine. But this problem did not happen until several months after I purchased and used the lens.

But overall, this is a very nice lens. It is small and compact, and perfect to leave on the camera all the time. As I said before, the pictures turn out great, which is all you can ask for in a lens.

Great lens for rough usage
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I am a volunteer photographer at an animal shelter and needed a decent, inexpensive and lightweight lens to use in place of my Canon IS lens that was pricier and heavier. The 18-55mm lens kit that came with my Rebel XT was not cutting it and I needed more zoom. I had the Sigma 28-200mm lens but the barrel creep was becoming a nuisance although the pictures came out good. So, after reading the reviews, I got this lens. The price cannot be beat and the zoom range is perfect for what I need. I have had to shoot in the shade, low and harsh lighting and it has performed well for its class. I now have the 40D with this lens and the photos look better than the Rebel’s. If you are looking for a decent workhorse lens, this is worth looking into. I plan on purchasing another IS lens but will keep this Tamron for my “rougher” work environments.

frustrated, problems focusing.
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
used to use my canon 18-55 to shoot indoors & for wide angle shots but I needed to replace it quite quickly just before christmas- I didn’t want to spend too much for a lens just to take some pics over christmas holiday so I got this- I was expecting that it wouldn’t be the same as my canon lens but gosh, I’ve only been frustrated by this lens- even when lighting is light enough to get it to focus, the focus is NOT good- but that’s only when it will focus because I have been having a heck-uva-time trying to get it to focus on my kids unless their whole face is aiming directly at me AND there is enough light on the facial features for the lens to find something to focus on- low light focusing, forget it. focusing with flash- forget it also. can’t wait to buy another canon 18-55- argh!

A lot of lens for a little money!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Wow! I purchased this lens today. I initially bought it because I thought it might be a good portrait lens until I can afford a good 50mm prime. I haven’t tried a portrait, as yet.

In the meantime, for grins, I slapped one of the “macro” lenses that’d I’d originally purchased for the kit lens that came with my Canon xti to see what it could do. Did I mention WOW? I set the lens for manual focus and hung out at my kitchen window, trying my African violets at different angles, as well as my Forget Me Not sprouts.

Talk about sharp! I think that this lens is going to be a good substitution until I can afford to pick up a really good (i.e. high dollar) macro zoom lens, as well. If the portraits come out as well as the macro shots, I’ll be totally impressed.

I went outside and shot some pictures of cars on the highway against the neon pizza sign down the road, and they came out really well, too, for handheld shots. I am going to go out with the tripod tomorrow and see how that goes.

For the money, so far so good. I think this will stay on the camera more than the 18-55mm kit lens that came with the camera!

Now, on AF, it does search…quite a bit with the macro attachment, but I grew up on 35mm where I had to focus myself, so this is not a big deal to me.

Not a bad lens at all for the money!

Another decent lens from Tamron
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I purchased this lens with my 35mm Rebel K2. A the time of this review I have shot 4 rolls of B&W film though it of Landscape and some action shots of people.

The lens has preformed admirably thus far. I have used it in both manual and auto focus modes both have resulted in good sharp photos. The included lens hood does a good job of preventing glare on the lens and the lens cap included with the lens can be removed with the hood on the lens.

The way the wide angle- zoom feature works seems odd in order to get this lens to act similar to a “prime” lens it makes some sense the lens is at it’s shortest length a 50mm then lengthens when either going to 28mm or 80mm. Holding the camera and lens properly will prevent you from accidentally interfering with the focus ring in the auto focus mode. I prefer manual focus (old habits die hard) however when in auto focus the lens works well to quickly focus and allow the camera to shoot.

This isn’t a fast lens as far as maximum aperture is concerned but for the average user it will work well in most normal lighting situations.

If you are doing photography in lower light this lens may not work for you.

Over all the lese is good for a good price for about $50 this is a good lens for the average non-professional beginner / intermediate photographer

Awful…..Not even worth the small price.
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I bought this lens to use with my Canon Rebel XTi. I am not a beginner to digital or SLR so I know what settings to use in each lighting situation. It is impossible to get a good exposure with this lens. More often than not the pictures end up being overexposed. If they aren’t overexposed they are underexposed. There seems to be NO middle ground with this lens. Getting a decently exposed shot is like winning the lottery…next to impossible! Out of 1500 pictures I managed to get 3 pictures that are properly exposed and they still look really bad. ALL of the pictures come out really soft. They are so soft that they almost seem out of focus. I have no issues while using a different Tamron lens on my camera. It is just this lens. I plan on sending this in to Tamron to see if maybe, just maybe there is an issue with my lens, but I doubt that it will come back in any better shape. If it does then I will edit my review accordingly, but in the meantime…I wish I had NEVER BOUGHT THIS!!!!

Disappointed
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I ordered this lens after noticing in the item’s picture that it has an aperture ring, which I need for an experiment. Unfortunately, the lens I got doesn’t have an aperture ring maybe because they’re selling a new version of it!

The lens itself looks good for its price & I really like its build, also it came with a lens hood. I didn’t test its quality that much, but the images looks fine when taken under appropriate lighting. The most annoying thing about it is its extremely loud autofucus.

WOW
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
wow 49$ for one georgous zoom lens i give 6 stars on every catagory it is my main lens does nyone need an 18-55 mm lens ???????

Very reasonable price for quality lens like this.
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
This lens is made with focus on the price and looks very affordable.His whole body is made from plastic which makes this lens very light.Also the focusing mechanism is outside of this lens which makes holding camera little difficult and you have to watch your fingers where they are if you do not want messed up the focusing mechanism or you can use manual focus.There is a better lenses on the market for not too much money then this in this class.

Great Starter Lens
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This len is great for starter and beginner like me. For the price this thing just can’t go wrong. It deliver quite sharp image despite some softness at either 80 mm or 28mm.

The plastic does not feel cheap at all. At least you don;t want to drop it. Autofocus is quite noisy and it takes an average of 1′ to focus. Overall all, it’s a great lens for the price although it’s not without its drawbacks.

Decent lens at a great price.
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I bought this lens when the kit lens that came with my XTi got broken. I was hoping this lens would be a replacement for the similar Canon one. However, once I started using the Tamron I quickly realized that it is noticeably slower in focusing than the Canon. It also seems I have to be zoomed out farther or physically farther from the subject to get a good focus – and sometimes it just searches and never obtains focus. While the Canon lens was not perfect, I think it was a little better than this one. One great thing about Tamron lenses is that most of them come with a hood, which is great when bonus is keeping out stray light. This lens is adequate for many shooting situations and makes a great “walk-around” lens for most folks, but it’s not without it’s drawbacks.

Its OK
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Well this lens is cheap (as we can see from the price). There is a reason for that. This lens is noisy, I didn’t know a lens could make my pictures get noisier, but this one does. Shooting at ISO 100 I was getting noise equal to shooting on ISO 800 with an XTi. I do most of my shooting for the internet so it’s not too big of a deal, but if I were to shoot with this lens for print, I would not use the images.

I will admit that it’s nice that the lens came with a hood and for the price it’s not bad. The plastic construction makes it feel really cheap (or light whatever way you want to take it). I would recommend this lens to anyone who needs something versatile and dispensable. I feel that if I were to be shooting in a mosh pit and this lens broke that it would be a small loss opposed to breaking a Canon lens worth at least twice the price.

If you want to buy a similar lens that is superior to this lens I would suggest taking a look at the Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8-4 DG AF Lens for Canon. The quality of the images from that lens surpasses this Tamron lens. If that doesn’t float your boat stick to the tride and true canon lenses.

Good Lens
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The lens has warranty card with it. It’s light and fit quite nicely with my Xsi. The images are all good.

Okay lens!!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Tamron 28-80 lens is a reasonable lens for the price.

I noticed that pictures are a little soft at 80 mm range but they are crisp and sharp at the lower ranges of focus.

Still unbeatable price for the quality that this produces..Thanks Tamron!!

Extremely cost effective.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this lens to augment, not replace the 18-55 kit lens (Also a decent lens despite reviews) and expected VERY LITTLE from it but it does a very nice, clean, sharp job. I’ve seen complaints of it being dark, slow, noisy, etc and while it’s no L series lens competitor, it’s a VERY NICE lens for that price if you simply want to expand you zoom range in a very cost effective manner. I have to confess that it gets less use now that I purchased the Sigma 28-200 (ANOTHER great lens) but not because the lens doesn’t deliver.

Good Starter Lens
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I’ve owned a copy of the Tamron 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 lens for many years. It started usage on an old Rebel G 35mm film camera, and then found a home on a Digital Rebel XT. This lens is a low budget lens, but does a fairly good job at producing decent images. Works as a fairly wide zoom on a film camera, and a slightly wide zoom on the digital camera. Very light in weight due to the amount of plastic used in making it. Easy to change, and easy using filters with. If you are just starting out, this lens might be a good option. Colors and sharpness aren’t great, but are also not horrible. This lens has managed to work like new, even though it has been banged around often. The lens hood is a must! I’ve taken over 3000 shots with this lens, so I guess it is safe to say that I’ve got my money’s worth!

Nice cheap lens
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Nice cheap lens. One of those all-around everyday lenses for the beginner or a backup for everyone who got to be ready for sudden occasions. Ahaa, and by much, a lot better than the kit lens which comes with the Canon XTi. It could have been better constructed, but light and capable of taking decent images that will surprise even the best professionals.

Tamron
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Order Arrived three days after ordering and in a one shape. Lens is just as advertised. Will definitely order from this company again.

Perfect lense for a perfect camera!!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I ordered this lense because I was building my own SLR package. I got it at a great price and it’s a perfect fit – very much like they came together. My first pictures were fantastic. I anticipate buying a longer Tamron lense in the future.