Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD Lens for Sony E APS-C Mirrorless Cameras (Black)

This lens is outstanding. It offers a diverse coverage of zoom range, sharp focus and and overall handling. It was a great price and the perfect addition to my camera bag. The optics are perfectly crafted and offer sharp, crisp, clear images. Worth every cent. Just make sure you order the proper mount got your camera.

delivers sharp, detailed images even from a distance. Ideal for wildlife, sports, and landscape photography. Fast autofocus, solid build, and excellent zoom capabilities make it a reliable choice for both amateurs and professionals. Highly recommended!

I bought this to extend the reach of my already excellent Sony 18-135. Based on first impressions I'm quite pleased with the results. The extended 18-300 range is quite useful and will make for a great walk around lens for travel. Image quality looks great. One interesting feature of this lens is the minimum focusing distance at the wide-end. You can get within an inch or two of an object and still get focus, making it useful as a semi-macro lens.My only two quibbles are unavoidable for a lens of this type. First, focusing is a touch slow but that's due to the lens itself - a zoom of this range requires a large number of lens elements and moving them to focus is sometimes slow. Second, the lens is just plain big and heavy. Not nearly as big as a full frame lens but it's easily one of the bigger lenses for Sony's APS-C ecosystem.A previous reviewer stated they believed the lens was gray market, however the one I received (ships and sold from Amazon) is not. A holographic sticker was included on the box verifying it was an authorized sale under US warranty.GOOD:- Useful zoom range- Incredibly close focusing distance opens up possibilities- Good image quality and color rendition- Solid buildBAD:- Autofocus is a tad slow compared to smaller range lenses- It's big and heavy!If you're looking for a great all-purpose walk around lens for a Sony A6xxx series this is a great choice!

It’s pretty decent as an all-around lens, and it can certainly be more convenient than switching back and forth between lenses if you see something close to photograph and then see something far away to photograph, as you can switch in just a couple seconds. I bought this to replace a 17-70mm Tamron lens and a 70-170mm Tamron lens, and while it does cover the zoom range and more of both lenses combined, I didn’t realize (which is my own ignorance of how lenses work) before purchasing this lens that I would miss out on the softer backgrounds when zoomed out to 17mm and the amount of light that I would lose when zoomed in at 300mm (as the f/6.3 is quite dark). The lens is great for taking photos of far-away animals at the zoo, for example, but as soon as the day starts getting dark, so do the photos. Worth it as an all-in-one lens, but you do have some cons to consider.

It's really shocking how good this lens is for the price. I sold my Tamron 28-70 f2.8 lens, a powerful workhorse of a lens that does just about everything, so I could get this one. I knew going into it that it would be a slight downgrade, but I really wanted an all purpose lens that I could walk around with an do anything, and this one fits the bill. I don't think I'd recommend it for professional portraiture, but for what it does, it's a slam dunk.The biggest shocker with this lens is the lack of significant distortion at the wider focal length. It really keeps everything looking good and clean. It's not as tack sharp as I'm used to with more professional lenses, but I'm not sure that I care, I really like this thing, and I'm hoping that it gives me the excuse to just go out and use my camera more often.Attached photos taken on Sony A7Riii (full frame sensor with crop sensor lens)Flower: ISO 100, 129mm, f9, 1/640 (it was crazy bright)Skull: ISO 2500, 103mm, f5.6, 1/200Flowers looking through window (wide): ISO 100, 18mm, F10, 1/125Flowers close up (same angle looking through window ): ISO 100, 300mm, f10, 1/125

If I could have only one lens for the rest of my life, it’s this one.Things I don’t like:It’s large, so it doesn’t fit in my smallest camera bag.Things I do like:It produces amazing photos. WIthout that, the rest is meaningless. This lens delivers. I never feel like I could have gotten a better photo with a better lens.It has a decent aperture range for a zoom lens. I’m not married to the idea you can only get a good bokeh background with a super tiny F-Stop. Even as a beginner, this lens has enough of a range, I have enough tricks we can pull it off together.It has an amazing range. I can photograph birds in the tree across the street, a joust at a Renaissance Festival, and a friend sitting across a very narrow living room all with one lens. I don’t care for swapping in the middle of things, and being able to get good shots near and far is a top priority for me.It’s not that heavy. I can shoot handheld no problem.It’s easy to manual focus. Yes it has auto focus. No, there are no problems with that. But sometimes the camera wants to focus on one thing and I want to focus on another. This lens is easy to get the things I want in focus to be in focus.It’s a perfect lens for the Sony A6000.

Bought 2 of the 18-300mm lenses and 1 18-200. sent all back. Focus ring problems. 1st was so stiff it couldn't be turned. Second had a huge tight spot at 50mm in which you had to wrench it past and 3rd stiff. Seems to be some quality assurance problems as I see focus ring problem comment all over.

This took amazing pictures. It was my go to lens for my trip! I have it for my Sony a6000 and it was great to use. I’d highly recommend this.