Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Di LD Macro Zoom Lens for Konica Minolta and Sony Digital SLR Cameras by Tamron
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Digital camera reviews of Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Di LD Macro Zoom Lens for Konica Minolta and Sony Digital SLR Cameras
Digital camera Review: Good for its value
Summary: 5 Stars
Purchased this product to accompany my Pentax K2000 and its 18-55mm kit lens. Image result was great. It's a little loud, but easy to focus. Not as heavy compare with other lenses. Used it to shoot the moon couple times and image turned out good even without a tripod. Definitely would recommend for those on a budget.Digital camera Review: Good for the price
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a good lens, great value for the money. The zooming is not as smooth as my old lens for the Nikon film camera...Digital camera Review: Good on the go
Summary: 3 Stars
I got this lens from a friend who called me telling there's a store having a clearance sale and he told me this lens had 90% discount so without any hesitation I asked him to buy it for me (cost 7KD = $23.5 USD). As soon as I tried it on my Sony A100 (Now A700) I knew this lens is not as good as the other lenses but it could handle its job nicely. It lacks quality, its Macro switch always getting on the way of the zoom rotation, has the tendency to slightly go out of focus even with spot focus and also a very slow focus. Picture quality is not as good either but it's good if you're not going big scale. High chromatic aberration on low apertures and hard/sharp DOF which makes the pictures less appealing and need more editing. You don't need to bother if you're going to scale down pictures, you'll be on the safe side.Digital camera Review: Good value
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm not much for reading directions, but you don't really need to with this lens. The macro setting is easy to figure out and works well. I have used it a lot lately shooting flowers and insects and I really like it.
I've only had one issue with the lens - the auto focus locked up once when I was zoomed all the way out. Has not happened again.
I am an amateur photographer using the lens on a Pentax KX.
Digital camera Review: Good value in this updated design.
Summary: 4 Stars
The new Di lenses from Tamron are designed to work well with digital cameras, although those with the Di will work for 35mm as well (Di-II only work with smaller, APS-C chip size digital cameras). This is an improvement on the fine 70-300 LD (Low Dispersion glass) design. The major improvements in this lens are in the coatings, to help reduce any color bias, and minimize reflections. Additionally, lens manufacturers are doing more inside the barrels to reduce reflections.
Like the older LD design, the new lens has a close-up mode (not strictly "macro") position that allows images 1/2 lifesize on the negative. That's about twice the size of most 300mm zooms lacking this feature.
If you're buying this for one of the new Sony Alpha series, this might be your best bet. The Tamron will include a 6-year USA warranty. It also includes the lens hood. The Sony 75-300 is repackaging of the older Konica-Minolta 75-300 lens, a lens that hit the market before any KM digital SLRs.